Re: Grokking miniroot.kmod etc.

Hubert Feyrer <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:40:51 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Digging more, it seems "iso_image" in distrib/i386/cdroms/installcd is the 
> best thing. BUT it takes a kernel from the "instkernel" dir, which has an 
> embedded ramdisk. The resulting ISO first boots the kernel, then loads the 
> /miniroot.kmod (good!), but apparently it still runs the embedded ramdisk.

That's actually wrong - the kernel is from the "instkernel" dir, but the 
kernel in there apparently doesn't get the ramdisk image inserted.

src/distrib is a scary maze...

  - Hubert