> You and initrd.txt both talk of pivot_root - but I can't find the > command anywhere.
It's in busybox. Read initrd.txt in kernel Doc for instruction. > Actually, Oxygen does NOT do this, as busybox is entirely statically > linked, and includes all applets as before. Many of the "necessities" > of running a Linux system were split out until root.lrp became as small > as I could make it - it's under 350k now. How big would be this same BBOX library dynamically compiled against libc? The difference is the cost in term of size. > The only thing you mentioned that makes me think using the initrd volume > for normal work would be bad is that mention of tmpfs. Will newer > kernels use tmpfs instead of minixfs - or do they use whatever you > want? How will that work? As of today initrd fs can **only** be ext2 or minix. If it could be tmpfs it would solve a lot of pbs... > > For Dachstein, it probably is - though I tend to think that moving > towards a minimalist root.lrp is a good idea. Moving towards a > minimalist root.lrp isn't that much different than moving towards a tiny > boot loader. I agree > I thought POSIXness used sed extensively; does busybox sed give all you > need? I am not sure. That is something to check. > > c2b/ Split busybox in two pieces (but ***both*** > > dynamically linked) between initrd.lrp and root.lrp > > This means you need libc.so during boot (500k+) and also means that > "busybox --install" will conflict. You also need to track to binaries, > maintain two versions (such as when you upgrade busybox) and takes away > a lot of nice otherwise "extra" commands that might be nice during boot. I am not sure it's that difficult. May be worth just trying. Jacques -------------- Profitez de l'offre spéciale Tiscali Liberty Surf ! 50% de temps en plus pendant 3 mois sur tous les forfaits Internet. http://register.libertysurf.fr/subscribe_fr/signup.php3 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
