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diff --git a/Hurd/LiveCD.mdwn b/Hurd/LiveCD.mdwn index 0d33a653..08479a53 100644 --- a/Hurd/LiveCD.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/LiveCD.mdwn @@ -71,3 +71,39 @@ In my attempts to get a bootable CD for the Hurd here's the recipe I followed, y ...That was the recipe for using a floppy image. If you use the "-t hd" switch of mkbimage, you'll get an ext2fs El-Torito HD emulation image that can be any size (I've got one here 300+ MB). You then can use "root (hd0,0)" in grub to boot something. Also, invoking mkbimage with no parameters will give you some additional help messages. -- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - 05 Nov 2003 + +---- + +My recipe for a booting GNU cd + +[screenshot](http://24.109.97.177:57777/Screenshot2.png)<br /> what you'll need:<br /> + +[stage2\_eltorito](http://24.109.97.177:57777/stage2_eltorito) from [grub 0.95](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub)<br /> a [base system](http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/gnu/gnu-2004-12-04.tar.bz2)<br />[iso9660fs.static](http://24.109.97.177:57777/iso9660fs.static)<br /> + +how-to: + + # mkdir iso + ..(at this point untar or setup base system) + # mkdir -p iso/boot/grub + # cp iso9660fs.static iso/hurd + # cp stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub + ..(edit iso/boot/grub/grub.conf) + # mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o livecd.iso iso/ + +note: /boot/gnumach /hurd/iso9660fs.static /hurd/exec and /lib/ld.so.1 must NOT be symlinks! + +contents of grub.conf: + + timeout 60 + default 0 + + title GNU/Hurd CD + #uppermem 523648 #this may need to be set + root (cd) + kernel /boot/gnumach root=device:hd2 #set device to your cdrom device + module /hurd/iso9660fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} + --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} + -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) + module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) + +-- [[Main/AndrewResch]] - 22 Feb 2005 |