On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 23:34 +0100, Per Sjoholm wrote:
> On 2010-11-29 22:52, Andrew wrote:
> > 29.11.2010 23:32, Per Sjoholm пишет:
> >> Hi
> >> I been trying to make a diskimage with a fat32 partition for use with
> >> virtualbox or qemu.
> >>
> >> Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz and installation
> >> instruction for usb/CF
> >> assumes a partition.
> >>
> >> My idee was to configure leaf using a virtual environment and then write
> >> the image to a media.
> >>
> >>
> >> Any suggestion on how create a diskimage and a best practice for using
> >> qemu or virtualbox?
> >>
> >> I can update the wiki(need permission)
> >>
> >> /Per
> > LEAF has syslinux, fdisk and mkfs.vfat; so you may boot from CD image,
> > load required packages (hdsupp, possible something else), and create
> > partition& make it bootable; then - extract here tarball.
> > But IMHO it'll be better not to write full image, it'll be better to
> > make system (syslinux) partition and place here all distro by packages.
> >
> Yes, I have done it with cdrom/iso image and floppy.
> On floppy you have the device and no partition.
> We are leaving floppies.
>
> On usb and hd/CF-card you want to use partitions.
> One for system and for one configuration, possible more depending on usage.
>
> With
> syslinux bering.img
> The configuration in tarball assumes /dev/sda1 (a vfat partition).
> syslinux on diskimage with no partition will boot.
> But LINUXRC does not find the configurations(leaf.cfg) as no /dev/sda1.
>
> Either some one prepare a empty image (for download) with a partition and
> instruktion on how to mount and copy
> files(tarball) to it.
> Or better(IMHO) a instruction for creating image with partitions from
> scratch, mounting partitions and copy tarball.
>
>
> /Per
Hi Per,
I have been thinking about distributing a "raw" disk image (like the old
floppy disk image) in addition to the .tar.gz for syslinux images, so I
have some ideas / notes from a few days ago. Something is wrong with the
procedure because the disk image does not boot with qemu, but you may be
able to find the problem and fix it...
I presume you are running Linux :-)
You need to be "root" for (some of) the following commands.
Create a blank image file 64MB in size:
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1024k count=0 seek=64
Get the name of the next available loopback device
losetup -f
(Adjust the following commands if this is *not* /dev/loop0)
Connect the whole-disk image as a loopback device
losetup /dev/loop0 disk.img
Populate the Master Boot Record on the disk image
dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/loop0 bs=440 count=1
Create a blank partition table on the disk image
parted -s /dev/loop0 "mklabel msdos"
Create a partition occupying the whole disk; bootable; not lba
parted -s /dev/loop0 "mkpart primary fat32 1s -1s"
parted -s /dev/loop0 "set 1 boot on"
parted -s /dev/loop0 "set 1 lba off"
Disconnect the whole-disk image as a loopback device
losetup -d /dev/loop0
Now connect the *partition* image as a loopback device
losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 disk.img
Format the partition
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n LEAF_BUC4 /dev/loop0
Install the SYSLINUX boot loader on the partition
syslinux /dev/loop0
Mount the partition at /mnt
mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
Extract the Bering-uClibc .tar.gz
cd /mnt
tar -xvzf
~/Download/Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz
Unmount the partition
cd $HOME
umount /mnt
Disconnect the partition image as a loopback device
losetup -d /dev/loop0
Fire up the VM
qemu disk.img
Hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk... :-(
You may have more success using qemu-img to create the initial image, or
fdisk rather than parted...
davidMbrooke
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