On Friday 25 October 2002 05:20, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 25 October 2002 8:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello World, > > > > I try to set up a LinuxBIOS System. What i really can not understand is > > the following: When I Flash the root filesystem into the BIOS Flash rom, > > where do i tell the kernel to mount it? How does that work? > > If you mean you are putting a kernel into Disk On Chip, along with a root > filing system as well, then the answer is that the root fs should be on > /dev/nftla1
You can also mount a root image on ramdisk. You create a ramdisk on boot up and use loop devices to mount files there. There are many mini linux distros that do this from floppy, cdrom and cflash. GO > > If, on the other hand, you are actually only putting the kernel onto flash > (DoC or some other flash device) then your root fs will still be /dev/hda1 > or wherever you have all your system files (maybe somewhere across a > network...). > > Does this tell you what you need ? > > Antony. _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
