Re: [iPAQ] Booting from PCMCIA/CF Hardrive?

Am Do, den 29.07.2004 schrieb Doug Carroll um 13:08:
> Has anyone looked into being able to boot directly from a ext2/3 formated
> pcmcia hardrive or CF card?
> I know it's possible to boot then chroot and am doing that now.

AFAIK the bootloader cannot read ext2 thus you cannot boot a kernel out
of such a filesystem. Technically it should be possible to put the
kernel into a small VFAT partition and have the root-fs as ext2 on an
extra partition. You should be able to boot with this small detour...

Oh, and be sure that your CF device is really a harddrive and not a
flash device - else a rw ext2/3 will kill your flash pretty quickly!

> Thanks
> Doug
CU
  nils faerber

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