On Saturday 14 September 2002 1:41 pm, Clark Rawlins wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:41:14PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
Hi.
Having successfully got LinuxBios to boot from a DoC device, I'm now trying to move on to having a root file system in the DoC as well, so I can do away with the hard disk altogether...
I'm trying to follow the instructions in the LinuxBios FAQ for "How do I put a filesystem on DoC?" and I can't seem to get the DoC partitioned...
cwlinux uses: nftl_format /dev/mtd0 0x100000 erase /dev/mtd0 128 dd conv=notrunc if=docipl of=/dev/mtd0 dd conv=notrunc if=docipl of=/dev/mtd0 seek=1 dd conv=notrunc if=linuxbios.block of=/dev/mtd0 seek=2 dd conv=notrunc if=linux.bin.gz.block of=/dev/mtd0 seek=128 sfdisk /dev/nftla < partition dd if=fsimage of=/dev/nftla1
Where partition is: # partition table of /dev/nftla unit: sectors
/dev/nftla1 : start= 1, size= 14265, Id=83 /dev/nftla2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/nftla3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/nftla4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
Thanks Clark - that worked a treat :-)
I now have bootable kernel + 7Mbyte partition without using a hard disk.
Has anyone here tried playing with Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org to build the system to go into the root fs ?
Antony.