Christine Ames wrote: >>--- "Usman S. Ansari" <uansari@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>arch is ppc & i dont have 2nd storage. What other >>>option i have? >>> >> > > Wow. You booting from a floppy? Hmmm. How about an initrd? From > Rubini & Corbet (2nd ed. p. 360): "When you boot a kernel with > initrd, it establishes a temporary running environment before it > mounts the real root filesystem." A typical cases to do this is when you don't want to reinitialize everytime, particular if the data is on a slow bus like i2c, etc and you are writing a time-constrainted system. In which case, reading from flash or loading of initrd (finding offset, uncompressing, loading as fs, etc) are equally bad. Amit -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
