Re: [iPAQ] dual booting familiar with 3670 and an IBM Microdrive

On Mon, Jan 13 '03 at 19:23, Philip Blundell wrote:
> I don't really understand why it's necessary to recompile the kernel.
> The standard familiar build doesn't include ext2 built in, but it does
> include cramfs which should be OK for an initrd. Ext2 and ext3 are both
> provided as modules and you can load them from the initrd.
Technically it's not required, but when I made my first dualboot images,
I spend like 4 hours triing to get my host to make cramfs that could
boot on my ipaq. It just did not work. There are dualboot images
available from handhelds.org, they use cramfs. more than one person was
unable to make them work.

You might want to try to get it to work without rebuilding the kernel
... well I might later this week.

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