http://oss.org.cn/man/linux/how/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html#toc4
http://oss.org.cn/man/linux/how/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html#toc4
dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs bs=1k count=4000
mkfs.ext2 -F -i 2000 rootfs
mkdir loop
sudo mount -o loop,exec rootfs loop
cd loop
....
umount loop
dd if=rootfs bs=1k | gzip -v9 > rootfs.gz