Re: Parted w/o boot disk

[Andrew Clausen]

Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Im sure you know loopback devices....

He's using loadlin.  It uses initial ram disks.

> dd if=/dev/zero of=./loopy bs=1k count=2000
> mkfs.ext2 ./loopy
> mount -t ext2 ./loopy /mnt
> 
> If you patch the linux kernel you can load the root fs can be from a
> loop filesystem.

I think this is irrelevant for this problem... although it could
save a bit of RAM.  Maybe we should do it, and encourage all
rescue disk people to do it...

Andrew Clausen