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Re: CD booting
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: CD booting |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:00:57 +0100 |
I have attempted making a bootable GNU cd.
Great work!
Anyone have any ideas?
A couple actually. The one that jumps out into my face is
translators, we need support for them. If you can set a translator on
a ISO image that you have "mounted"[0] and it works, then this is a
good thing. If it doesn't, we are going to be quite screwed, since
translators are vital for even booting GNU.
But if this works, could you try creating a ISO image that you use for
a sub-hurd? It just needs to be minimal, the Hurd+bash+dependencies
should do the trick. And then modifing say hurd.boot (located in the
Hurd CVS) to use iso9660fs instead of ufs as the root file-system
translator. There are some notes in the Hurd reference manual about
sub-hurds too.
This should narrow down the things that can be wrong.
[0] I _hate_ the word mount, we really need a better word for setting
a translator on a node, i.e. the equivialent to "mounting" on
GNU/Linux and the like.
Jolly good hacking!