grub

I’ve been working on building custom Debian and Ubuntu distributions for use under VirtualBox.   One advantage that both have over Fedora is debootstrap.  This tool allows you to create a default rootfs from pre-compiled packages inside a directory.  You can then chroot into that directory to install the kernel image, […]

Debian/Ubuntu debootstrap images for VirtualBox

 in Fedora / Linux / Software Development / Ubuntu / virtualization  tagged bootloader / Chroot / debian / debootstrap / Dpkg / Fedora / grub / kernel / kernel modules / kvm / Linux / qemu / raw disk image / ubuntu / VirtualBox / Xen
I upgraded to Fedora 14 at work yesterday.  For the most part the typical processes I’ve written about before worked fine.  But two places exposed some caveats. First, network based installation using NFS doesn’t work. What happens is that after the bootloader info is taken some attempt to access the […]

Fedora 14 mini review

 in Fedora / Hardware / Linux / NVidia / x86-64  tagged boot partition / bootloader / eye candy / f14 / Fedora / grub / kernel command line / nfs / nfs mount / nvidia / nvidia cards / nvidia drivers / Open Source / virtual domains / virtual hosts