>>>>> Tibor Polgar writes: > 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. Not at all. RedBoot can be used to pass a command line to MIPS kernels. It would be simple to add the passing of a ramdisk address. It already supports ramdisks from ARM and SH kernels. --Mark
