>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Zotov <[email protected]> writes:

> Bas Wijnen писал 11.08.2012 14:15:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> Maybe I'm wrong about this and there is a way to open a recovery
>>> console, even without GRUB, on Debian.
>> 
>> Not sure what you call a "console" here. A grub commandline is very
>> limited, and can't run fsck. If you want a real shell, you first need
>> to boot a real system. Debian's recovery console is started from an
>> initramfs. If you get that to boot, your kernel and initramfs are
>> working. If those are broken, you need more drastic recovery. Getting
>> initramfs on ben should in principle be possible, but I don't think
>> uboot supports it.
>> 

> With any recent kernel, it's perfectly possible to embed initrd into
> the kernel (as opposed to providing a separate initrd image at the
> boot time). The bootloader then only sees one uImage or vmlinuz or
> whatever the target is.

My next question would be: does the NanoNote's RAM suffice for loading
and running a Debian initrd?

cheers,

David
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