Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> Read the source, then. Ethan explained it - rdev patches the bootloader
> piggybacked on the compressed kernel image. I would assume this strategy
> is way too primitive to do what you want (the existing piggybacks, not the
> 'patch the hell out of the bootloader').
>
>
> > Your call. You can hardcode the command line and ramdisk path in the
> > loader as well. The loader needs to know where to find the ramdisk anyway,
> > right? (The kernel cannot load the ramdisk from some other storage BTW.)
> >
>
> Do you mean that the kernel and root image need to live on the
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
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> That's the bootloader's job on PPC. With a sane OF implementation, your
> boot loader would be yaboot and something like initrd= ramdisk> and append="root=/dev/ram" should do.
you don't need append="root=/dev/ram" yaboot does th
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:07:48PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
> Is this functionality missing from the PPC or is it just convention to
> let the bootloader handle this?
the bootloader handles this on i386 too, your just missing the fact
that zImage and bzImage kernels are really a 16 bit i386
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:21:03PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> I've only read the man pages for rdev and I'm still not clear on how it
> works. Does it mask a word in the kernel that has all of the
> information on where to locate the root image? If that's all it does I
> don't see why it would
Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > > That's the bootloader's job on PPC. With a sane OF implementation, your
> > > boot loader would be yaboot and something like initrd= > > ramdisk> and append="root=/dev/ram" should do.
> > >
> > Is this functionality missing from the PPC or is it just convention to
>
> > That's the bootloader's job on PPC. With a sane OF implementation, your
> > boot loader would be yaboot and something like initrd= > ramdisk> and append="root=/dev/ram" should do.
> >
> Is this functionality missing from the PPC or is it just convention to
> let the bootloader handle this?
Con
Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to set up a system that will load a compressed root image
> > from the disk (eventually flash) into a ramdisk and run the root
> > filesystem from ram. I was wondering if there is an "rdev" type utility
> > for the PPC that lets the kernel know that it want
> I'm trying to set up a system that will load a compressed root image
> from the disk (eventually flash) into a ramdisk and run the root
> filesystem from ram. I was wondering if there is an "rdev" type utility
> for the PPC that lets the kernel know that it wants to load a compressed
> image int
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