On 12/26/01 at 9:24 PM, Jacques Nilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "David Douthitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I've begun working on the next generation... and have > > Oxygen booting with an initial RAM disk - in preparation > > for running without the linuxrc patch.
> In a non-patched kernel the only parameter you need are > linux initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram1 init=/linuxrc (see > my 2.4.14 distro) My impression was your distro never "let go" but rather set the system up as desired and then you ran init yourself. In the case of Oxygen, it is entirely standard: /linuxrc is run automatically since the root volume is actually /dev/ram1. Thus the linuxrc-always patch is unnecessary since the root volume is not /dev/ram0. Once /dev/ram1 is configured, all appropriate filesystems are unmounted and the kernel does a pivot_root and starts init. > root=/dev/ram1 will load initrd fs in /dev/ram1. But after > that you can do whatever you want. In by 2.4.14 version of > LEAF (see previous post) initrd is loaded in /dev/ram0 and > after that everything is moved over tmpfs which is much > nicer. But you have to be under 2.4.x :-) My impression was that the initrd fs will be loaded into /dev/ram0 no matter what, and that root=/dev/ram1 means that the real root system is /dev/ram1. It's the fact that the real root is NOT /dev/ram0 that makes /linuxrc run. I'd like to go to 2.4 - but right now it appears that it is quite big. I've been working with 2.4.16 with GR Security patch installed - last compile (without module support) was 700-800k uncompressed. I DID strip out everything I could - but I noticed a few things: 1. PPP Compression conflicts with something else in the kernel. 2. Can't pick and choose from iptables/ipchains/ipfwadm simultaneously unless using modules. So back to module support.... -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
