| To: | Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> |
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| Subject: | Re: debian installer on mips64 (origin 200) |
| From: | Andrew Clausen <clausen@melbourne.sgi.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:39:52 +1100 |
| In-reply-to: | <20030205092800.GD16674@bogon.ms20.nix> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <20030203041432.GF967@pureza.melbourne.sgi.com> <20030205092800.GD16674@bogon.ms20.nix> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.4i |
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Guido Guenther wrote: > > Perhaps a better approach is to get the kernel to prompt users to > > change disks, and stick in the vanilla debian CD? i.e. have a > > "mips64-bootstrap.img" CD image, which prompts for install-1 afterwards. > > Why not use the CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK option to append the installer > image as initrd to the kernel and dump this into the vh? To build the vh > on the CD you can probably use the same script Flo made for IP22: > http://www.silicon-verl.de/home/flo/software/genisovh-0.1.tgz Sounds sane :) Unfortunately, I haven't been able to boot kernels stored in the volume header :( Cheers, Andrew |
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