[uClibc] buildroot to bootdisk

erythros erythros at erythros.com
Sat Apr 3 18:33:30 UTC 2004


no help there... i've been using the bootdisk howto, thats how i got as far
as i did.

my question is, what am i doing wrong with the filesystem created by the
uclibc buildroot.?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Landley" <rob at landley.net>
To: "erythros" <erythros at erythros.com>; <uclibc at uclibc.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [uClibc] buildroot to bootdisk


> On Friday 02 April 2004 21:49, erythros wrote:
> > so i ran the buildroot and it worked. i can chroot into it, i even
dropped
> > it onto a second harddrive and added dual boot to lilo. all is well.
> >
> >
> > except that is i tried to use the root fs i386 as the file system for
boot
> > disk. linux is new to me. so needless to say it took me three days to
get
> > lilo to boot, then two days to get my kernel to load. had probs with
boot.b
> > and using the lilo from slackware 9.1. i installed lilo 22.5.8 and still
no
> > boot.b, but lilo worked... had to read about rdev fer the kernel three
> > times before i thought i knew what i was doing.
> >
> > so lilo boots, the kernel loads fine. but when the root fs i386.gz loads
i
> > get data crc errors... it doesnt matter if i put it on the same diskette
or
> > a second one. so how do i fix this?
>
> Possibly by reading this:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/
>
> Or perhaps this:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
>
> There's also a very nice downloadable book on
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
> that goes into _excruciating_ detail about all the bits in a working
system
> and how to build them.  It's quite nice.
>
> Rob
>
>


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