On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:25:04PM +0200, Guy Taylor wrote:
> I've got a kernel here that boots until the VFS stage, then asks for
> a secondrary stiffy, once that stiffy is put in the rest of the
> system boots, but 0 output is displayed.....
what makes you think the rest of the system boots, if there's no output?
> a) What is VFS
Virtual FileSystem - its the layer inside the kernel that abstracts
the various filesystems, and gives (eg) fat32 and ext2 the same api.
> b) What is the secondrary stiffy likely to be
a root disk (a disk containing the (possibly compressed) root
filesystem, that will be loaded into a ram disk)
> c) How does one achieve this??
if it was a boot disk, this is normal behaviour - if its your normal
kernel, this is wierd. where did you get this kernel from?
somehow your kernel has been given the option: "load_ramdisk=1"
unless you're doing this from the bootloader (lilo), this should fix
it: rdev -r /vmlinuz 0
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- Gus
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