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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I can boot BL2 from RAMdisk, or BL3 from loop, or SW40 
> zipslack, but I cannot boot any version from hard drive.  
> 
> Once in RAMdisk bl2 I can mount /dev/hdb2 /hd and then
> chroot /hd links2, or other programs on hard drive, 
> I can thus run programs from hard drive but chroot is 
> a nuisance 

It is much less of a nuisance when you do:
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chroot /hd /bin/sh
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> and it would be complicated to compile on such a system.

I've compiled from inside a chroot and it works fine.

> I tried to   mount /dev/hdb2 /

That won't work.  You use chroot for that sort of thing.

> Is there some way to boot with RAMdisk BL2 and then 
> switch over to the HD by replacing /dev/ram0 with 
> /dev/hdb2?  Same kernel.

Use chroot to run /bin/sh.  You can probably automate
it by putting it in a startup script (in baslinux.gz).

> Can chroot be somehow set up to work with every command 
> instead of specifying it before each command?

That's what /bin/sh does.  It gives you a CLI which you
can use to run whatever you want.

> Can this be automated in an rc file?

Probably.  To do this you will need to edit the image
file for the ramdisk.

> Can one reformat a DOS drive from DR-DOS to some other 
> DOS without losing what is on it?

Doesn't the sys command do that?

> I suppose I could copy all the files to the linux partition, 
> reformat, and then copy them back.

That's what I do:  boot Linux and do a tgz of the entire DOS
partition.

Cheers,
Steven

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