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Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?
- From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Nov 30 11:05:00 2000
- Organization: Cobalt Networks
- List-id: Mailing list for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Norbert Bollow wrote:
> The typical boot CD from a Linux distribution uses a hack to
> create a ramdisk with a root filesystem that can be mounted r/w;
> that particular hack won't work on the RaQ.
>
> However that doesn't mean that it would be impossible to create
> a boot CD for the RaQ.
If you use the "Boot from disk" method, you can put a "Very Special"
(tm) kernel there, which has an initrd as the rootfs.
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Tim Hockin
Software Engineer / OS Engineer
Cobalt Networks
thockin@xxxxxxxxxx