On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Tim Sailer wrote: > OK, in theory, one should be able to make a CD bootable with LILO. > I can't figure out how. If someone has an idea how to do this, > I'll try to burn some CDs and try it out. > I am aware of how to do this with loadlin and initrd, however, the only reason for using initrd is to configure mount points on the CD to r/w disk for the portions of the system that needs to be changed from time to time. I don't think that initrd can be run from lilo (but I could be mistaken), but if you are willing to configure the system (fstab for instance) completely before comitting it to CD you should be able to boot the CD from a small partition with lilo and a kernel that has built in drivers for the cd drive. However, this is a lot of work to get a system that will, by virtue of CD access speeds be brutally slow. The main reason for my interst in this path is that it provides a path for bringing up a system (larger than base) without boot, root, and base disketts, from which a "real" system can be installed with all the networking tools needed to perform this installation in whatever method the installer desires. I have been hearing on Linux-Kernel that there is work being done to patch the kernel so that it will boot with a loop device, thus allowing an ext2 file system to be built as a file image that can be copied to any partition (either dos or linux) and be booted using the loop device to mount root. This would be a read/write filesystem without the limitations on umsdos file systems. This configuration can be booted from either lilo or loadlin.
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