Hi all,
there is additional summary about possibility to build standalone
kernel with in-memory file system for DU 3.2d.
First of all thanks for all answers!
Global summary:
1) Totally unsupported an undocumented (at least till DU 4.0)
2) the DU 4.0 has utility 'btcreate' (standalone bootable tape - documented
and supported) which partially does what I need :-)
My personal opinions:
- the way to build standalone kernel is following:
- build kernel with something like that in config file:
config vmunix root on md
pseudo-device memd <size>
where <size> is the size of memory file system
- create partition with size <size> and copy there all you need
- merge raw partition above into kernel. There is 'fsmrg' utility
in DU4.0 for that. It seems to work with older kernels too (at
least with DU3.2d).
- above created kernel is standalone and bootable from disk and tape (after
slight modifications).
Unfortunately, I was unable to boot this kernel from network - the main
reason for doing all that thing :-(( After loading from net, the kernel
panics with 'can't mount root' error. Perhaps it's my fault or unsupported
possibility.
So, this question is still open!
Best regards,
Lubos
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Lubos Kejzlar
System and Network Specialist
Laboratory for Computer Science Tel.: +42-19 2171210
University of West Bohemia +42-19 7221530
Univerzitni 8, 30614 Pilsen Fax: +42-19 2171485
Czech Republic E-mail: kejzlar_at_zcu.cz
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Received on Thu Jan 09 1997 - 12:08:45 NZDT