On Tuesday 30 August 2005 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
> HCK,
>
> just use the initrd for your ramdisk.  Rather than doing a NFS mount,
> and a pivot-root, just put all the stuff you need into your initrd, and
> at the end of /linuxrc, run /sbin/init.
>
> If you are using a 2.6 kernel, take a look at initramfs, rather than
> initrd.  It's a bit more flexible.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, hckimm2 wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am an engineer who is making communication systems.
> > I have a board(made by Kontron ltd, Intel CPU, currently with diskless )
> > that is used in compactPCI.
> > I boot that board with network PXELINUX method and currently using NFS.
> > But I don't want to use NFS and I want to make and use ram disk image.
> > That means I want to use a ram disk as / after network booting.
> > Currently I made a initrd by ltsp_initrd_kit.
> > What should I have to change in 'linuxrc' file and pxelinux.cfg/default
> > file. And how can I make ram disk image.

I'd love to hear pros/cons of using the initrd for ever, vs using the initrd 
to unwind a root fs into ram, then pivot root to ram. I've done both.

The only caveat I've got: if you unwind a usb-mem stick (even a fast stick)
it's s--o-- s--l--o--w-- (100s K/sec no Ms/sec!!)

James


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