Pete Popov wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:05, Krishnakumar. R wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way that I can keep > > a ramdisk image (containing the root filesystem) > > in a flash device and boot to it. > > Yes, and other architectures have support for passing arguments to the > kernel that tell it where the ramdisk is. I don't know that we've done > that for MIPS, yet. It wouldn't be too hard to do and maybe someone on > this list is already working on it (I think someone actually is working > on it and was preparing a patch for Ralf). For having separate initrd and kernel load we also need an aware bootloader that knows where to find the ramdisk. RedBoot, from what i read, seems to be i386 specific. The Yamon i've patched "COULD" be made to do it. > > > The ramdisk should be separate from the kernel image. How is this currently done in non-mips archs? I know lilo and Druid can do this with a configuration file and hard sector addressing into a filesystem, but i never understood how they avoid/get around file fragmentation issues. Tibor
