Booting squashfs filesystem with isolinux

[pavNell]

Would like to "embed" my remastered LiveCD onto a compact flash card. Having a boot problem.

I've partitioned the CF with one partition (hda1, 512MB).
Formatted with fat16 (isolinux bootloader requires fat16).
Copied everything from the LiveCD to the CF...
cp -Rf /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/hda1

But how to make it boot?

Contents of the LiveCD and now the CF are...
livecd.sqfs <-- one big 412MB file.
isolinux <-- directory

listing of isolinux directory...
boot.cat
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
mediacheck
vmlinuz

Not sure how to get this to boot. Thnaks for any help.

 

[Chacalinc]

could this help?

http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/41

or this? (it's better I think)

http://silent.gumph.org/content/4/1/011-linux-on-cf.html

Chacal, Inc.

 

[pavNell]

Close. I got it to boot the kernel but had a kernel panic. Something like...

unable to mount root to /dev/rd/3. No such device. Enter a correct "root=" parameter.

I guess /dev/rd/3 is a ramdisk that the kernel doesn't understand or something. I tried other root= parameters, but to no avail.

Anyway, I don't want to use syslinux bootloader. Am going to try to install lilo on the CF.