On 12/28/01 at 9:39 AM, Angelacos, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've noticed that the cdrom.cfg, smallnet.cfg, etc. > configuration files on the bootable cd are not in the root > directory of the cdboot.ima image on the CD. > > Instead, they are inside the root.lrp, in > /var/boot/config. > > This is different from the standard floppy boot images, > where the .cfg files are on the root of the boot floppy. > > Is there some specific reason that it has to be this way? Yes. > Is it possible to create .cfg in the root of cdboot.ima > and have them read? No. The disk image is read via BIOS INT13, and the Linux kernel has no support for this. Linux cannot read from this image in anyway; it is syslinux which has read in root.lrp et al, and syslinux supports reading this boot image. This setup also means you can boot from a device that Linux does not support - which could be useful in booting from a hard disk with tight security, for example. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
