Yeah, eject is apparently looking in /block/sys to check for the 
'removable_media' flag for the specified device... and it's assuming the device 
name isn't a symlink.

-Mike
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:43 
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Boot to RAM


On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:20 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does the current Fedora Live CD support loading the rootfs to RAM?  I thought 
> I remembered that as a boot option in some of the earlier releases (Fedora 
> 6?).

The code is still there.  It's not exercised much, though.  We removed
it from the menus as it can be pretty confusing to do reliably (how much
RAM is "enough")

> I googled a bit and found reference to a 'live_ram' command line arg and 
> tried adding that and booting, but I get the following error:

Yep, that's the trick

> Done copying live image to RAM.
> eject: did not find a device /dev/root in /sys/block/

Sounds like a bug in eject -- it should follow the link and then do the eject

Jeremy

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