From 39afe93407b4213a106972d79619b3af200376e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:32:50 +0000 Subject: - add a sample README.diskimage for i386 --- docs/README.diskimage | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/README.diskimage diff --git a/docs/README.diskimage b/docs/README.diskimage new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67a0aad4f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/README.diskimage @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Sample for i386 to create a 6MB disk-image + +# create an image file +dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=$((6*1024*1024/512)) of=img +# create a partition (optional) +echo -e "n\np\n1\n\nw\n" | \ + ~/src/busybox/busybox fdisk -C 16065 -H 255 -S 63 ./img +# as root, associate the image with a look-device: +# The offset of 512 comes from the the layout of the image. See +# ~/src/busybox/busybox fdisk -C 16065 -H 255 -S 63 -l ./img for the start +# block and multiply this with the block size (==512). +~/src/busybox/busybox losetup -o 512 /dev/loop/0 /path/to/the/img +# create some filesystem on it, for example ext2 +mkfs.ext2 -m0 -Lslash /dev/loop/0 +# mount it and copy your stuff to it +~/src/busybox/busybox mount -oloop,rw /dev/loop/0 /media/l0 +~/src/busybox/busybox mkdir -p /media/l0/boot/grub +~/src/busybox/busybox cp -a project_build_i386/root/boot/grub/stage? /media/l0/boot/grub/ +~/src/busybox/busybox cp -a project_build_i386/root/boot/bzImage /media/l0/boot/ +~/src/busybox/busybox cat > /media/l0/boot/grub/menu.lst <