On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:10 +0200, Nico Berndt wrote: > Me again, > > Argh, I don't get it together! > - I don't have enough understanding of the booting process to understand > how I tell the system to uncompress the ramdisk and mount its content > into RAM as the /root filesystem. > > I understand linuxrc should contain all the needed commands but I don't > know what steps exactly have to be done. > > Also I don't understand what my /etc/fstab should look like. > Is there anything else I forgot? Once /root is mounted it should not > matter, if the system runs on a harddisk or in RAM, right? > > Maybe someone can point out these things for me? > > Best regards, > ../nico
Ah, your problem actualy is that you don't know how it works :-) so the best you could probably do is a: "less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt" but may be you don't want to do that which bootloader do you want to use? grub? grub works fine with usb-flashdisks you don't want to run your system on a flash-disk ... it would not last long enough ... hm your /boot/grub/menu.lst could look like this: ----- default 1 timeout 50 title usb-ram-system kernel (hd0,0)/boot/[your-kernel vga=6 rw \ ramdisk=[size of uncompressed initrd image] prompt_ramdisk=0 \ init=[your init] root=/dev/ram initrd (hd0,0)/boot/[your initrd.gz] ----- -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
