RE: Ramdisk root filesystem strangeness

2000-12-07 Thread Jeff Chua
>Is there support for using RAMDISK as the final root file system >in 2.2.x versions, or is it there in the 2.4.x versions. Works with 2.2x and up to 2.4.0 test12-pre3.bz2 Make sure you specify the following if you're using loadlin root=/dev/ram With anything above test12-pre3.bz2, you

RE: Ramdisk root filesystem strangeness

2000-12-07 Thread Vivek Dasgupta
in Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ramdisk root filesystem strangeness Am in the midst of bringing up the kernel on a new MIPS variant, and I'm tryingthe mount a statically linked ramdisk as the root filesystem. No

Ramdisk root filesystem strangeness

2000-12-07 Thread Justin Carlson
Am in the midst of bringing up the kernel on a new MIPS variant, and I'm tryingthe mount a statically linked ramdisk as the root filesystem. Note, this is NOT using initrd support, I really want to use a ramdisk as my final filesystem, not as an intermediate step in booting the system. In blkde