Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:27:22 -0400 | From | "David L. Parsley" <> | Subject | Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine |
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Mathias Killian wrote a patch to allow cramfs initrd's, see: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-01/1064.html
Alexandr Andreev wrote: > > Hi, list. > > My MIPS machine has no any disks or flopies. So i obliged to use a RAM > disk with a file system on it, which is mounted as root. > I use gzipped initrd image, which is linked to the special section in the > kernel during compilation. Now, the RAM disk size is really big, so i > decide > to use cramfs instead of ext2. In scripts/cramfs/ I found an utility that > creates cramfs file system image. But i read in rd.c, that RAM disk driver > doesn't support the cramfs. > > After i create an image, how can i mount it as root file system? Where i > must put it? Which kernel command line options i must use? > > Please answer, or point me to any documentation or mailing list. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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