According to Claude Robitaille: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi there,
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> I am creating rescue disks and I need to use a ramdisk to create my
> root diskette. I am using kernel 2.0.36 and the documentation, in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt says that the ramdisk
> driver dynamically allocate RAM as needed. It also says that the
> ramdisk_size parameter is not needed anymore.
Why do it this way, all distributions have images already configured for
rescue disks. You obviously missed the thread about using 'dd' or 'cat'
to create a boot disk.
Anyway Redhat for one, has the images on thier cd under /images, use 'dd'
to copy the image called boot.img to one disk, and the ramdisk is called
"supp.img".
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> When I create a ramdisk of, say, 8MB, I am getting IO errors
> when I use it. Also, fsck indicates that the device is 4MB and
> that the super block is wrong at saying that the filesystem has
> 8192 1K blocks. The system has physically 32 MB of RAM.
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> The ramdisk was created with a dd command specifing 8192 block of
> 1KB each (sucessfully).
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> What is wrong?
>
> Claude
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Regards Richard.
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