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mkparted for creating bootable parted floppy
From: |
kent robotti |
Subject: |
mkparted for creating bootable parted floppy |
Date: |
20 Mar 2001 23:50:47 -0800 |
>Hi Kent,
>That was quick work. This looks very good (for i386 anyways).
>A couple of thing I wonder about.
>Should you include the option to boot on a partition? This may
>confuse more than help and an experience Linux user would
>probably already have a recovery disk.
I don't think it's confusing, this is the boot message.
.~. You can boot a linux system on a partition by telling syslinux
/V\ where the partition is.
//Y\\
/(_|_)\ IDE & SCSI Partitions: /dev/hda[1-15] /dev/sda[1-15] etc.
^^ ^^
boot: linux root=/dev/hda2 <Boot linux system on /dev/hda2>
boot: linux root=/dev/hda2 single <Bypass init>
boot: linux root=/dev/hda2 init=/bin/sh <Specify init>
You can also tell syslinux to boot a system into ram that's on
a second floppy disk, the floppy can be formatted to 1.44mb.
boot: rama "Put rama for floppy drive a, ramb for floppy drive b!"
To boot the ram parted system on this floppy disk, just press enter.
boot: parted foo=boo "If you want to pass options to the kernel!"
>What would the rama/ramb disk be used for? I think this may
>also confuse unless it is pointed out for some specific use.
To boot a compressed linux system on a second floppy.
>Maybe the initial prompted in message.txt should be something like;
>"Hit return to boot parted"
>"Hit F1 to see other options"
Maybe, it may border on being confusing.
>then define a "F1 param.txt" in /tmp/floppy/syslinux.cfg
>Where you give the "linux root=" option and the "parted foo=bar"
>option.
>Good work,
> Keith
Thanks.