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This Thanksgiving I've decided to (once and for all) learn how the stinkin' Linux kernel gets loaded. I've re-inherited an old (Circa 1998) Dell Laptop that my wife used to use. The bios does not support booting from USB and I've got this fetish about having a *single* external USB drive that carries my development environment. I've spent some time building bootable USB flash drives, but they just don't fit the bill. It's great that the drudgery of building a bootable flash drive has gone away with some great tools out there, but as a developer, I found them lacking. I came across Sidux Linux recently and it's pretty dang great, so I want a bootable USB drive running Sidux that also will boot on my *old* laptop also. That's a pretty tall order, and I'm not there yet. The puzzle get's more complicated because there are some distributions that *will* boot on my old laptop (Puppy Linux and MCN Live for example). Having used Linux for years now I have a passing familiarity with lilo and grub, but it was never intersting enough for me to really explore at a detailed level. After lots of experimentation I cam across Martin Purschke's rescue CD which is a wonderful and thorough example of the kernel boot process. I've been experimenting with quite a bit. More to follow ... |
| | Posted 11/29/2008 10:47 AM - 1 View - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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