Re: Booting from compact flash

Olaf Gellert wrote:

>Hi,
>
>another question concerning the OpenBrick NG: How
>works booting from the compact flash? On Soekris 
>

There is ,no compact flash on OpenBrick NG. Either we use USB driver 
(flash or hard disk) which boots as /dev/sda or we use internal DOM 
which boots as /dev/hda.

>boxes
>the compact flash is addressed as /dev/hda so a normal
>harddisk is simulated. This makes booting from the
>compact flash easy (just install the necessary linux
>files on the CF, write a bootloader to it and GO!).
>
>How about the OpenBrick NG? I remember to having read
>about some special tricks and tools for booting from
>CF...
>
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Please read:
http://www.nexedi.org/workspaces/project/umigumi/introduction_to_umib/view

umibuilder allows to produce in a few seconds a mini distro which can 
run either on compact flash, usb flash, hd and even as a live CD.

So, we just have to type
    ./umibuilder -w openbrick-ng -ba vpn

to build a bootable VPN for OpenBrick NG target

umibuilder downloads all packages and installs them.

You can try umibuilder by chrooting in our devt. environment 
(http://www.nexedi.org/static/mdk-9.2.tar.bz2)


JPS.



>Olaf
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