> The filesystem on an initrd is a complete root file system. Some startup
> script on the initrd [/linuxrc on RH systems] has to explicitly mount
> another filesystem and do a pivot_root, if required. Tomsrtbt does not
> do a pivot_root, since it does not expect to mount any other filesystem.
>
> If you want to study this further, gunzip the initrd that comes with
> your distro and do a "mount uncompressed_initrd /mountpoint -o loop" and
> study the startup scripts under mountpoint.
>

Thanks for your help.
It worked after adding the line APPEND root=/dev/ram0.

An info: Appart from this I have added the install image used to prepare
tomsrtbt from DOS. So this can be used to prepare tomsrtbt from netboot.

Thanks
-logu





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