similar to: initramfs and kernel 2.6.7

>I found a problem with pxelinux in 2.08 and 2.09pre13 when working with >vmware 4.5.1 (the latest with builtin support fpr pxe-boot). With 2.07 and >2.01 it works without problems. But when trying the later versions there is >trouble. I reach pxeboot.msg >and it shows fine but when I try to choose an image it dosent give keyboard >feedback (first I thought it had hanged) but

I have just released SYSLINUX 3.00-pre9. The only change versus 3.00-pre8 is that the MEMDISK query API now reports the boot loader ID byte, per Bernd's suggestion. This is a release candidate, and I plan to release it as 3.00 *tomorrow*, unless I hear back anything bad. -hpa

hpa notified me in private mail that we have an issue that when building initramfs - if the content changes (say kinit) then the initramfs will not be rebuild. The solution I have come up with is to let make check all the files included in the initramfs and rebuild it if any files are newer than the initramfs and also rebuild if arguments changes (root_uid). In same process the usr/Kbuild file

This fix has been implemented in preparation for the upcoming klibc merge in -mm. But as it fixes a real (but rare I hope) bug in vanilla kernel it will be added to my pending 2.6.17 kbuild queue. I've done quite some changes to the gen_initramfs script and being shell programming newbie review by more experienced shell hackers would be appreciated. I did a git mv

Hi I am looking at inserting functions in the early user space and want to use initramfs for this. I understand this can be achieved using 'initrd' or by making changes in the 'usr/gen_init_cpio.c' file. Can someone kindly give me pointers as to how to go about this. I am looking at the 2.6.x kernel. Thanks Rachita.

Fix usr/Kbuild so it utilise the new gen_initramfs.sh script which will rebuild initramfs when the content has changed. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> --- usr/Kbuild | 74 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) This patch shall not be applied until my kbuild.git tree is merged upstream. Or it

Generate dependencies almost like done by fixdep in the kernel. This teaches make to rebuild cpio image when content has changed. Also restructured usr/Kbuild a little so we better utilise parallel makes (dash, gzip, utils and kinit are now build in parallel). Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> --- patch is on top of hpa's linux tree, so path differ if applied to the klibc

(Apologies to klibc@zytor.com for the re-send) This patch makes gen_init_cpio generate the initramfs_data.cpio from a file which contains a list of entries: file, dir, nod. I swapped the order of filename/location for the file arguments so that it would be more uniform with the dir and nod tyes. [thayne@torch linux-2.6.8]$ usr/gen_init_cpio --help ERROR: unable to open '--help': No such

Hi, Here's a try at writing an initramfs HOWTO. This is basically a write-up of a number of interesting emails I collected over time. It could probably use an editor, more fact-checking and a bunch of other good things, but it should be better than nothing ;-) Daniel -------------- next part -------------- INITRAMFS HOWTO 0) What are klibc and initramfs? Initramfs is a ramfs into which

Hi. There's a rescue cd at ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/people/areq/RescueCD/ that uses isolinux that don't work in my configuration. All I get is: --8<-- ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 isolinux: loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: extremly broken bios detected, last ditch attempt with drive=9F isolinux: disk error 80, ax=432E, drive 9F --8<-- My configuration is: VP_IDE:

Basic infrastructure for building klibc. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> --- commit 5bba564a5c133369b3e83e5827d053a98cb3c59a tree 11f2acc1f9d845e8764fa790f522b79ea1106b80 parent 378abd8f4d39024ea6c87eb5b54155238f647f0d author H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:58:08 -0700 committer H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:58:08

To make it more obvious where the files are supposed to end up move files so they reflect the directory structure in the kernel: mkdir scripts mv kernel/Kbuild.* scripts/ mkdir usr mv kernel/Kbuild usr rmdir kernel Furthermore: - updated cp-to-kernel to refelct new directory layout - teach cp-to-kernel to place gzip right under usr/ - Add '#' in front of comment in usr/Kbuild --- I

Hi , One of the things I am working on requires me to have a kernel and an initrd (as root filesystem , based on busybox) in one single image. I am trying to use initramfs for this, but there are a few things that I just can't figure out. As a test, I made a cpio archive of my own for the kernel source (plain 2.6.0-test5). Everything gets unpacked just fine during boot. Somehow I was

Last patch for now. This gets gen_init_cpio into a state where it can pick up a "kinit" binary from usr and stuff it into the cpio archive as /sbin/init. This is obviously a crock, but it suffices for testing until something sane is done about integrating klibc into the kernel tree. The patch also adds a bit of instrumentation to initramfs.c, to try to help flush out bug 740.

Hi Peter & others. Here are three patches that does the following: #1 - Update kbuild part of klibc so make clean works Adds gzip including a sample kbuild file #2 - Factor out definition of usr/ to two variables #3 - Move kbuild files to reflect location in the kernel As requested in earlier mail I need a bit of guidiance of what you expect from the kernel integrated parts of klibc.

Hey folks - So what happened to the RescueCD ISO?... i'm not finding it under the ...centos/4.4/isos/ dir, as i believe it generally has been previously. At my office, we have a local mirror, and i've always just burned the RescueCD ISO and booted with that. At the prompt i supply "linux askmethod" and then later reference our local mirror to do an install or upgrade. The

Hi Bryan and other klibc people. I have taken a stamp on the Makefiles for klibc, this is what I came up with. 1) No longer recompile on every invocation 2) Correct checking on dependencies 3) Simpler makefile syntax (almost all over the place) I compile-time tested it only. Two open issues: a) Do we realy use .a files for initramfs. I renemed that to the executable. b) I renamed

Following patch improves integration with kbuild. With a future kernel (2.6.14-rc) it now has working support for 'make clean'. Included is an example of how to compile an early userspace program. I selected gzip as the most simple one for this - and left out all the links to different names (gunzip etc.) Before proceeding with this I need some inputs on what functionality is required by

On 09/05/2013 01:55 AM, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Piotr Karbowski > <piotr.karbowski at gmail.com> wrote: > >> With syslinux (extlinux) it will jump to last INCLUDE'ed menu always, with >> 5.01 it will display list of elements, then allow me to choose which one I >> want to enter. >> >> Even if the include part contain a

Hello , I trie to use xen 3.0.3 , on my config , and virtual machine with HVM does not work . For testing the hvm virual machine i had used some iso : (1) http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/2006-06-25/x86_64/rescue.iso (2) http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/download/2006-06-25/x86/rescue.iso (3) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdfullws.iso (4)