Nicolas Dufresne writes:
> Le samedi 14 mars 2009 à 18:33 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors a écrit :
>> Why pivot_root? Modern initramfs' use chroot.
>
> Really ? Which distros uses that ? It's really unclean to my sense,
At least debian etch (oldstable) and lenny (stable).
> since you stay with two
Pietro "m0nt0" Montorfano wrote:
> If you read
> that file, there are the specs about mmcblk files, major and minor
> number, it's ok, nothing new, but reading that it's explained that scsi
> disks devices should be at most 16 devices, am i correct?
There are 16 SCSI disk devices available with
Il giorno dom, 15/03/2009 alle 12.32 +0100, Kees Jongenburger ha
scritto:
>
> This is different in that it uses the SCSI subsystem v.s directly MMC layer.
> If you put our 7+ parditioned MMC/SD card in a usb card reader you should see
> you can access all the partitions.
Ok, i've underst
Le samedi 14 mars 2009 à 18:33 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors a écrit :
> Why pivot_root? Modern initramfs' use chroot.
Really ? Which distros uses that ? It's really unclean to my sense,
since you stay with two partitions mounted while you only need one and
You cannot free from ram uses for initram
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 14/03/2009 alle 21.20 +0100, Kees Jongenburger ha
> scritto:
> > Hello Pietro,
> >
> [snip]
> > This problem was also discussed on the LKML, but with no actual result
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/5/21
> >
> >
Il giorno sab, 14/03/2009 alle 21.20 +0100, Kees Jongenburger ha
scritto:
> Hello Pietro,
>
[snip]
> This problem was also discussed on the LKML, but with no actual result
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/5/21
>
> Greetings
Thanks for the info, i'll watch that topic!
Just one question, why i've
Hello Pietro,
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
wrote:
> Hi, i've bought a 4GB uSD and i've partitioned it to try and test a lot
> of distro, done 10 partitions (1 for kernel and 1 extended for logical
> partitions) booted and only 7 partitions shown, no prob, i've read
Stefan Monnier writes:
> That's exactly what I suggested. Except you'd probably want to use
> pivot_root rather than chroot. Of course, as someone else mentioned you
Why pivot_root? Modern initramfs' use chroot.
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>> If all those can use the same kernel, I'd do it as follows:
>> - a /boot partition containing the kernel plus a minimal system which
>> just allows you to choose which distribution to use.
>> - a LVM partition on which you can create all the volumes you want.
> LVM could be the solution, your id
W LVM on a phone :D
>LVM could be the solution, your idea is good and here is mine. Due to
>uboot i don't think that an initrd could be done, but we can make the
>following (tell me if i'm crazy): boot to a single
>partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 with a minimal system (kernel with lvm inside,
>sbin dir wi
"Pietro \"m0nt0\" Montorfano" writes:
> LVM could be the solution, your idea is good and here is mine. Due to
> uboot i don't think that an initrd could be done, but we can make the
Hmm? I'm sure u-boot supports initrd?
> like courses or similar, and then chroot to the choosen partition and
> co
Il giorno mer, 11/03/2009 alle 12.08 -0400, Stefan Monnier ha scritto:
> > Hi, i've bought a 4GB uSD and i've partitioned it to try and test a lot
> > of distro, done 10 partitions (1 for kernel and 1 extended for logical
> > partitions) booted and only 7 partitions shown, no prob, i've read
>
> Hi, i've bought a 4GB uSD and i've partitioned it to try and test a lot
> of distro, done 10 partitions (1 for kernel and 1 extended for logical
> partitions) booted and only 7 partitions shown, no prob, i've read
If all those can use the same kernel, I'd do it as follows:
- a /boot partitio
2009/3/10 Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano :
> Il giorno lun, 09/03/2009 alle 23.48 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors ha
> scritto:
>> "Pietro \"m0nt0\" Montorfano" writes:
>> > Sooo, how it's that possible?? Why can't we simply patch the driver
>> > which make the mmcblk device to let us create all the devices?
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| Il giorno lun, 09/03/2009 alle 23.48 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors ha
| scritto:
|> "Pietro \"m0nt0\" Montorfano" writes:
|>> Sooo, how it's that possible?? Why can't we simply patch the driver
|>> which make
Il giorno lun, 09/03/2009 alle 23.48 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors ha
scritto:
> "Pietro \"m0nt0\" Montorfano" writes:
> > Sooo, how it's that possible?? Why can't we simply patch the driver
> > which make the mmcblk device to let us create all the devices?
>
> drivers/mmc/block.c has the limit:
>
"Pietro \"m0nt0\" Montorfano" writes:
> Sooo, how it's that possible?? Why can't we simply patch the driver
> which make the mmcblk device to let us create all the devices?
drivers/mmc/block.c has the limit:
/*
* max 8 partitions per card
*/
#define MMC_SHIFT 3
#define MMC_NUM_MINORS (2
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| Hi, i've bought a 4GB uSD and i've partitioned it to try and test a lot
| of distro, done 10 partitions (1 for kernel and 1 extended for logical
| partitions) booted and only 7 partitions shown, no prob
Hi, i've bought a 4GB uSD and i've partitioned it to try and test a lot
of distro, done 10 partitions (1 for kernel and 1 extended for logical
partitions) booted and only 7 partitions shown, no prob, i've read
the wiki page and a file [1] describing minor and major numbers for
devices and reffe
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