[Solved] Boot image build.. compressed root dir, and to RAM, possible?

Gen2ly · 2014-09-26 23:40:10

I would like to have a cd boot image (that I am building) first: uncompress a root directory; two, load that root directory to memory; and last, boot to that root directory.

For the compressed root directory, I understand some possibilities may be:

squashfs
initial RAM disk

For putting the root directory to memory, some possibilities may be:

memdisk
initial RAM disk

For squashfs, there is a package called "mkinitcpio-squashfs-git" that I have yet to try. For "memdisk" the syslinux wiki mentions that this has to be a DOS image (so I think this is out). An initial RAM disk looks promising but how to implement it... I have no idea. It looks attractive but looks it may also be task-intensive??!! From what I've seen on that option it would take merging the mkinitcpio image with a regular fully-functioning root directory. Anybody know about this? Any ideas?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2014-10-06 21:06:31)

Gen2ly · 2014-10-06 21:05:21

I got this to work my unsquashing an image directly to new_root. I had to build a hook for this.

Last edited by Gen2ly (2014-10-06 21:05:46)

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#1 2014-09-26 23:40:10

[Solved] Boot image build.. compressed root dir, and to RAM, possible?

#2 2014-10-06 21:05:21

Re: [Solved] Boot image build.. compressed root dir, and to RAM, possible?

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