On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 12:44, David Wuertele wrote: > I would like my kernel to read a ramdisk file off of an msdos > partition. I think the way to do this is to put the following on an > msdos partition: > > 1. vmlinux (linux kernel) > 2. /dev directory (to mount devfs on) > 3. ramdisk.img (the > 4. linuxrc program (see below) > > My bootloader finds vmlinux on the dos partition and boots it. > The linuxrc program loads the ramdisk and does a pivot root. > > I think the above will work. I have two questions: > > 1. is there an easier way? > 2. my kernel is not finding linuxrc. Here are the arguments I'm using: > go vmlinux devfs=only root=301 rw init=/linuxrc > Is there some special path syntax I need for the init=<path>? Do you have /linuxrc in an initial ramdisk? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
