Thanks for your clue to learn. It seems be necessary to modify ramdisk and they deserve more efforts.
2010/6/17 Neal Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu>: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010 16:23:09 Parmenides wrote: >> There are some excellent distro actually, but not my favourite. They >> will install many packages I do not need. What's more, I very like a >> clean and fast linux and the console mode is enough. So, I choose the >> LFS. Additionally, the LFS give me a chance to get familiar with Linux >> more and more. Actually, I want to configure a virtual Linux running >> on VMWare and play a server's role. But, the default settings make >> automatical boot impossible. > > What you are looking to change is 'hidden' inside the initramfs/initrd. > For the purpose of learning, you can unpack the LiveCD, disassemble it, unpack > the initramfs (or initrd, whichever it uses), adjust it as you desire, repack > it and repack the CD (or pack it into a hard drive partition or image file > for VMware/QEMU/etc.) > > I've done this many times while tweaking Smoothwall until I finally got udev > and the initramfs archive to work as I wanted them to (read: learned how udev > and initramfs really work). I did this with both the ISO image and tweaking > the early boot stuff on the hard drive. > > Only unfamiliarity prevents you from unpacking the live CD and fiddling with > it until it does what you want. Using the live CD is not optimal, but it > can't be beat for hands-on learning. Once you dive into that, though, you are > kind-of on your own; not many people grok isolinux, initramfs/initrd, and the > early boot environment, and it's way outside of building Linux from scratch. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
