I've been trying to roll my own boot/root floppy with syslinux. So far I've managed to put a kernel on one floppy, a root fs on another floppy, boot the kernel, mount the root fs. The snag I've run into is that the root floppy isn't big enough for libc, /bin/sh, and whatever stuff I'd like to have (networking). I've put busybox on it, which is a very small implementation of basic unix programs (including a budget version of /bin/sh). But that's all I can do, and it's not even enough to get a login shell.
Now, I can easily fit on one floppy a gzipped filesystem image containing libc, /bin/sh, and busybox. But I don't know how to mount this image as the root fs! I've tried the initrd= option, but this seems to only work as an "interim" root fs used presumably only to hold kernel modules which may be needed to mount the *real* root fs. This is not my case. I want the initrd file to *be* the real root fs. How can I accomplish this? If I can't accomplish this, how can I mount a root fs from more than one floppy (e.g. busybox on floppy #1, libc & /bin/sh on floppy #2)? cheers, chris
