I'm trying to use grub to boot a flash image, which I'm making up as a
normal file under linux, then creating partitions inside that file with
fdisk, dding mkfs'd partitions into that file with offsets, then mounting
those partitions, and populating them with an OS.
It all works. Except for
Interesting topic !
I play armound with this, with the further problem to have a cross
build from Sparc (Solaris) to i386.
One quite simple way is, you create a stage1 + stage1_5 on a device of
your choise with an normal (online) install. The dd the MBR+nr_of_blocks
of stage1.5 into a file,
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:32:55PM +0100, Christoph Plattner mentioned:
Interesting topic !
I play armound with this, with the further problem to have a cross
build from Sparc (Solaris) to i386.
One quite simple way is, you create a stage1 + stage1_5 on a device of
your choise with an
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:52:48PM +, John P. Looney mentioned:
Looks good. But, on booting a box with this flash chip, I got a grub
hard disk error of some description. I think it could be that grub is
telling init that the root filesystem is on hd1 (which it no longer is, on
the target
