Re: [cobalt-developers] Can the RaQ boot from floppy or CD?

[Tim Hockin]

Norbert Bollow wrote:

> The typical boot CD from a Linux distribution uses a hack to
> create a ramdisk with a root filesystem that can be mounted r/w;
> that particular hack won't work on the RaQ.
> 
> However that doesn't mean that it would be impossible to create
> a boot CD for the RaQ.

If you use the "Boot from disk" method, you can put a "Very Special"
(tm) kernel there, which has an initrd as the rootfs.


-- 
Tim Hockin
Software Engineer / OS Engineer
Cobalt Networks
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