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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:48:05AM -0800, Hermang Mansilla wrote:
> 
> I have made a small initrd that loads usb modules and
> mounts the usb drive then mounts the loop filesystem
> in subdir baslin.
> It is only 100kB
> if ytour pc has WinXP and cant boot directly from usb
> then you can use syslinux to create a boot flopy
> copy a kernel and this initrd and it will boot very
> fast.
> I will post the initrd or send by email if someone is
> interested

Are you talking about running BL from a USB drive? I can't quite tell from 
your description. 
If so, this could be a great boon for BL. It would provide another good way 
for folks to 
test and/or use BL. I did this sort for thing for DamnSmallLinux (made a 
floppy that would 
allow me to boot a DSL installation located on a USB drive): did you maybe 
run across some 
of my postings across the 'net on accomplishing this? I used an existing 
initrd from a 
distro called RUNT and simply spliced into the initrd the right USB modules 
for the kernel I 
wanted to run. A big part of the trick was getting the kernel to wait a bit 
before booting 
from the USB drive so that the root filesystem would be in existence when the 
kernel wanted 
to continue the boot process. The RUNT author had discovered how to do this 
and edited his 
linuxrc script accordingly. Assuming that you've accomplished this sort of 
thing (i.e., 
booting a BL installation that resides on a USB drive), did you create your 
own initrd, or 
use an already-existing one? Which kernel/modules did you use?

Let us know more about what you did so we can determine how useful it might 
be for other BL 
users/testers.

James