Tomas Tintera wrote: > 1. We need > ide/ide-core.ko, > ide/ide-disk.ko and > ide/ide-generic.ko > modules on 2nd (root) floppy (in initrd) in order to get > HDDs work. The space for it can be made by bzipping 2nd > floppy's initrd instead of gzipping it. Also the following > lines must be added to modules.dep in initrd on the 2nd > floppy:
This, and adding a swapon option make sense (in the limited situations where the system can be preconfigured with a swap partition). > 2. We need to use a bzip2 decompressor on 1st (boot) floppy > instead of zcat. We can use micro-bunzip > (http://www.landley.net/code/micro-bunzip.c (version 3.0, > which is smaller than 4.1)), with the patch in > the attachment, statically linked with klibc. You lost me here. How does using bzip2 save memory? The floppy image is decompressed into a ramdisk. -- see shy jo
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