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. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. > Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open > Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new > features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
