Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > If I understand right, the steps are: > > > > 1. Create and compile a kernel of your choice. > > 2. Create a Minix file system and populate it with the contents of > > root.lrp > > 3. Compress the Minix filesystem with gzip and put on disk as initrd.gz > > 4. Modify linuxrc to run /sbin/init at the end > > I don't think this is the best way to solve this. IMHO, it's better to have > the kernel boot with root=[!ram0], which will get linuxrc running. Linuxrc > should then set the real root device to /dev/ram (or your tmpfs or ramfs > device) by writing to /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev (see initrd.txt in the > kernel Documentation directory).
How does this affect the steps I put forth? I don't see that it does. I had assumed that /linuxrc would just run; now you say that the "root" parameter needs to point somewhere other than /dev/ram0 . That's alright, but that doesn't change the steps does it? According to initrd.txt, it would appear that the usual way of doing things is, at the end of /linuxrc, to pivot_root and then run init. I was thinking one doesn't need to pivot_root at all - and the documentation alludes to such situations. Is there a problem if pivot_root isn't used? Is it right to say that pivot_root and /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev are both new to Linux 2.4? _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
