[flashboot] Script for diskimage-creation

[Jacob Winther]

Tested with physdiskwrite and worked fine for me with some minor changes:

let asize=$totalsize-$sectorstrack (I have 63 sectors/head)

and less importantly

MOUNTPOINT=/mnt (double slashes)

Any reason why you need to specify totalsize and sectorscylinder
instead of deriving them from c/h/s values?

Cheers
Jacob



On 11/2/06, Rickard Dahlstrand <rd at tilde.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a script that creates a diskimage-file for use with
> flashboot. This means that you no longer need to connect the flashcard
> to the system where you build flashboot. Instead you can gzip and move
> the imagefile to your PC and use tools like dd or
> http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php to write it to your flashcard.
>
> The script needs to be adapted to the geometry of the disk you are
> using, right now this is done by editing the script but before we commit
> I will add something that lets the user specify this in the command-line.
>
> This scripts needs some testing and auditing before we can commit it, so
> it would be great if everyone can help out.
>
> Also, a great feature would be if the script could write directly to a
> flash-device. Not critical, but that would make it one step less for the
> people that use connect their flash to the system where the build
> flashboot. Anyone with a flashreader on their build-system could
>
> There is also two support-scripts that let you mount and unmount the
> image after creation. These can be used for creating and editing
> configuration after the image-creation process.
>
> Also, boot.conf needs to be copied to inital-conf before you start. This
> is the only file that is copied to the filesystem other than the
> boot-loader and kernel.
>
> Thanks, Rickard.
>
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