Steve,

One remark: for booting of HD/Flash or CD you can use the 
initrd_ide_cd.lrp from CVS. It's an initrd with all the necessary 
modules already put in and enabled.

Regards,
Eric Spakman

> 
> I wrote up these notes about how I recently installed Bering-uClibc-2.0rc2 
> on a Soekris net4501, a popular single-board pc that has a serial console 
> and compact flash slot, but no floppy.
> 
> http://www.telltronics.org/software/Bering/BeringCross.html
>  
> I hope somebody might find this useful.
> 
> quoting a little for background:
> 
> This page describes my experiences bringing up the Leaf ... using a 
> "cross-configuration" process that I haven't seen described in
> the Bering user guides yet.
> 
> What do I mean "cross-configuration?"  By analogy with
> "cross-compiling" I mean that most configuration and setup is done on
> a desktop host computer, to create a bootable compact-flash card that
> starts and runs exactly the way you want with minimal intervention on
> the target computer's console.
> 
> This is in contrast to LEAF's usual installation and configuration
> process, where the packages and configuration are modified on the
> running target system and then saved back to the boot media.
> 
> The net4501 has no floppy interface, so all of the Bering install
> documents that start out saying "boot from the floppy" are useless there.
> 
> While the examples here are oriented towards the Soekris net4501
> target, others may find them useful to.  Running Leaf/Bering on any
> system with a serial console and removable IDE boot media will need
> very similar steps.  Beyond that, the general cross-configuration
> process using a desktop host may be applicable to any Leaf or Bering
> installation, even one that uses a floppy or PXE boot process.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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