Re: cloop and 2.6.0-testX

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:51, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:21, Jeff Mock wrote:
> Wow - that should make my life a lot easier!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Have you gotten it to boot multiple kernels off a single CD yet? 
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to chose between a 2.2.x and 2.4.x, or at
> least a stripped 2.4.x and a real 2.4.x... I have several systems that
> absolutely refuse to work with a 2.4.x kernel with all those IDE 'fixes'
> compiled in.
> 
> Rob  (I am subscribed to the list, so you don't need to CC me)
> 
> 

I have a couple of different modifications of lnx-bbc with different
kernels to support drivers not in the standard release. 

I've never made a disk with multiple kernels, but it shouldn't
be too difficult.  lnx-bbc is very sensibly organized and you should be
able to have multiple kernels if you want. The syslinux.cfg file
could be modified to add boot options for a second kernel.

One problem is that lnx-bbc uses syslinux to boot, so there is an
image of a 1.44MB floppy on the CD that contains the kernel and the
initrd.  There's not room for two kernels on the floppy image file, so
you might want to use isolinux to boot a multi-kernel version.

One of scripts converts lnx-bbc to boot using isolinux. It will be 
a bit of hackery, but I'm sure it's possible to create version 
with multiple kernels.

jeff