Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Dec 1999 03:31:58 -0600 (CST) | From | Christopher Barton <> | Subject | drivers/block/rd.c and CDROM's |
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A very small thing.
I would like the ability to load a gzipped filesystem into the ramdisk and root mount it, from a device other than the floppy drive (in this case, the cdrom drive).
Currently, the following check in rd_load_disk(...) seems to prevent this:
if (MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) != FLOPPY_MAJOR #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD && MAJOR(real_root_dev) != FLOPPY_MAJOR #endif ) return;
When I comment it out, all is well. I was thinking somebody might want to take 30 seconds to clean this up (or perhaps to inform me of my insanity).
Btw, I've made a read-only version of Linux that boots from CD and makes no changes to the host PC. We use it for disaster recovery. Hence the need...
Thanks!
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