>Use the flash bootloader to load both the kernel and a filesystem into RAM i'll have to put sides with the original poster... i'd love to have a small kernel with no filesystem support. i think that for many purposes the memory->filesystem dichotomy is ill-suited but a unix-like system (like linux) doesn't seem the best way... maybe a message-passing microkernel like QNX or minix would be easier somebody knows something about eCos? just wondering ----- Javier -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/