The Gods Previously Read:
> 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?
I get a login prompt
>
> > 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?
My apologies for this, after reading the bootdisk HOWTO this makes more
sense........This kernel is a clients.......some uber guru type person got hold of it,
and now poor little me, whois a networking person...not a kernel guru has to figure
all out...alas poor Linus, for I knew him not well
>
>
> 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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