On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * zhu shi song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060707 10:50]:
>> Dear Lists,
>> I can boot my EPIA using Linuxbios. But I want to
>> use RAM disk as root file system. How can I do with
>> it?
>
> Use an initial ramdisk (initrd). You can specify it in the bootloader
> (ie filo) as initrd=/path/to/initrd in the kernel command line, or
> use mkelfImage to produce a single binary from kernel and initrd so it
> can be flashed to rom as part of LinuxBIOS.
>
Check out www.linux-live.org
It has a series of scripts to run everything from cdrom or usb, and a
script to transfer everything to ram. Both files and dirs are compressed.
There are two distros now using these scripts:
www.slax.org
www.zenlive.tuxfamily.org
russ
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