Subject: Re: tftpboot.img
From: Nikita Schmidt (cetus@snowball.ucd.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 04:27:33 PST
tftpboot.img has no structure and consists of three parts: loader, kernel,
and ramdisk image. It's created by
make bootpfile INITRD=ramdisk_image_file_name
in linux/arch/alpha/boot/.
Debian scripts do basically the same, except they use a slightly modified
version of the loader (bootp.c) which passes `root=/dev/ram' argument to
the kernel (this can still be overridden through boot_osflags).
I think these scripts are somewhere in the boot-floppies source; they also
build the root image which is then passed on to the script that makes
tftpboot.img.
Nikita
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