>On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 14:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >I wonder if we could do the trick similar to what Linux kernel is doing >> >with initrd? i.e. free up ram disk space for applications after kernel >> >is initialized and HDD root is mounted. >> >> That's done here: >> >> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/loficc/crypto/usr/src/uts/i86pc/os/startup.c#1992 >> >> in release_bootstrap. > >Oh, cool. So, we OK when we boot off HDD case. >Thanks for pointing out. > >Now, if I understand code correctly, if we remount root during InstallCD >boot to CD media somehow, than release_bootstrap() should do the job. It >probably will require some changes and not sure it is all easily >possible?
It will need to mount an NFS root and that needs to be set in getrootfs(). Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
