Re: [rtl] Flash disk probs

[James Cassidy <jcassidy@nova.genesoft.com>]

One other thing: Lilo seems to want an entry in the flash disk's
/dev directory for the root= device line.  For example, if I have
the root=/dev/hda1, I need to copy the /dev/hda1.  Otherwise it
seems to complain during installation.

Here's my buildflashboot script in case it shows any delusions I
might be operating under... :-)


#!/bin/sh
#
# buildflashboot = build a bootable flash disk
#
TARGET=/dev/hda1  #flash disk
PROGDIR=`pwd`
ROOTOFF=900 
#
# make a little file system 
#
umount $TARGET
umount /mnt
mke2fs -vm0 $TARGET $ROOTOFF

#
# mount the target device onto the mnt dir and prepare the
# various pieces 
#
umount /mnt
mount $TARGET /mnt
#rm -rf /mnt/lost+found
mkdir /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/dev
mkdir /mnt/etc
#cp -R /dev/null	/mnt/dev
#cp -R /dev/fd0 	/mnt/dev
cp -R /dev/hda	/mnt/dev
cp -R /dev/hda1	/mnt/dev
#cp -R /dev/hdb	/mnt/dev
#cp -R /dev/hdb1	/mnt/dev
cp -R /dev/ram*	/mnt/dev
#cp -R /dev/console /mnt/dev
cp /boot/boot.b /mnt/boot

#
# run lilo on the drive
#
rdev -r vmlinuz.flash 50052
rdev vmlinuz.flash /dev/hda1
cp lilo.conf.flash /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
cp vmlinuz.flash /mnt/vmlinuz
lilo -C etc/lilo.conf -v -r /mnt
#
# copy over the compressed root file system starting at ROOTOFF
#
dd if=rootfs.gz of=$TARGET bs=1k seek=$ROOTOFF

#
# some checks
#
rdev -r /mnt/vmlinuz
rdev /mnt/vmlinuz


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