> On Jun 26, 2015, at 8:47 AM, John Barfield <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve been interested in configuring omnios to run in memory off of a ram > disk myself. > > Does anyone know where you could find a good guide for booting Solaris(h) > kernel into memory with a ramdisk?
:-) the funny thing is that SunOS has been bootable into ramdisk since... forever. Back in the day, before CDs were invented, we booted from tape or (if you really hated yourself) floppies :-). Net-net, this probably isn't documented anywhere, per se, outside of the building shell scripts :-( The way it works is to produce an image of a file system. Add that to a boot loader and instruct the boot loader to put it in memory and run. The actual work is to produce the image, and this is where the build scripts comes into play. You can certainly take an OmniOS build and produce an in-memory root, however, the missing management part is handling the persistence of identity. For that, it is useful to see how SmartOS handles /var and files normally modified in /etc. -- richard _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
