This page is better for ramdisk howto ... http://www.linux-vr.org/ramdisk.html -earlm >-----Original Message----- >From: jeff [mailto:jeff_lee@coventive.com] >Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:40 AM >To: embedlf; linux-mips@linux-mips.org >Subject: RE: how I mount the root fs from ramdisk?? > >Please download the busybox and make it to be mips binary. >Or you can find some usable information from http://linux.junsun.net > >Regards, > >Jeff > >-----Original Message----- >From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux- >mips.org]On Behalf Of embedlf >Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:00 PM >To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org >Subject: how I mount the root fs from ramdisk?? > > >linux-mips: > I use mips cpu board to design my product. I want run linux embeded >in this board. >But in this process,there is not harddisk on the board. > So I should mount the root fs on ramdisk. Do you think so? I should >make a ramdisk. > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 >mke2fs -vm0 /dev/ram 2048 >mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /mnt/ram >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >After I mount it, I should copy some files to this folder.I used >cross_compiler, >compiling linux on X86 PC.How do I make the file /sbin/init??where is the >source?? > >dd if=/dev/ram bs=1k count=2048 | gzip -v9 > /tmp/ram_image.gz > > > > embedlf > embedlf@citiz.net > 2003-08-29
