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- You can place any compressed Linux kernel on this disk, and it should boot.
- To do so:
- Configure the kernel with the following facilities linked in: initrd,
- ramdisk, loop, msdos, fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs.
- Make your kernel with "make bzImage".
- Copy it to "linux" on the boot disk.
- Change directory to the boot disk and run ./rdev.sh to configure the kernel.
- Optionally, edit syslinux.cfg to add arguments to the "DEFAULT"
- line, or add an "APPEND" line with arguments to be appended to any
- user-typed command line as well as the default.
-
- Documentation to read:
- /usr/doc/syslinux/syslinux.doc.gz
- "man rdev"
- /usr/src/linux/documentation/ramdisk.txt
-
- Source code:
- The scripts that create this disk and the other Debian bootstrap disks
- are installed in /usr/src/boot-floppies/ by the boot-floppies package.
-
- - Bruce Perens, 12-March-1996
-