[oe] How to boot Cacko from KexecBoot on Collie?

Peter Chubb peter.chubb at nicta.com.au
Thu May 7 23:19:21 UTC 2009


Hi Folks,
	Is there a trick to kexecbooting Cacko on collie?  The issue
at present is the filesystem on /dev/mtdblk0p1 --- which should
contain CACKO's root file system (it's hard coded in various scripts)
--- but which contains the kexecboot initrd.

Because the kexecboot kernel is smaller than the NAND partition it has
to fit into, it should be possible to put the initramfs (also small)
straight after it, and give the kexecboot kernel a fake partition table.  Is
this the right track?  Or is there a simpler way?
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Dr Peter Chubb  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au  peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au           ERTOS within National ICT Australia




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