I dabble in Linux so I thought I'd take a look at how the NASLite-HDD boot process worked and am a bit confused. From what I gather:
- NASLite HDD uses the syslinux bootloader. This makes sense given NASLite's diskette lineage.
- NASLite.01 is the kernel image that syslinux loads into memory.
- NASLite.02 is a filesystem image that is loaded into memory (/dev/ram0) and used as the root filesystem.
So, the questions: - Is this correct? - Is the kernel (NASLite.01) and filesystem image compressed? - I am assuming you are using a modified/streamlined version of the kernel and not the "stock" 2.4 kernel?
I started this poking around because I wanted to see if it was reasonable to try and replace the NASLite kernel with a customized kernel that contained additional hardware support. I have no "nerfarious" intentions here, I'm just seeing if I can get my shiney new Marvell LAN chipset working.
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