Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Patch to support initrd with dynamic ramdisks. | Date | 7 Dec 1996 01:38:22 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <199612061855.MAA00609@wind.enjellic.com>, greg@wind.enjellic.com (G.W. Wettstein) writes: > > My overall goal was to be able to use a compressed ramdisk and gain > the functionality of linuxrc without either using loadlin or lilo. > Why don't you want lilo? You get a boot prompt from lilo and cann pass arguments to the kernel... a Good Thing, especially for installation or rescue floppies.
> 2.) If a linuxrc is found it is executed before the final > disposition of root is selected. If no change (via > /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev) is specified the ramdisk > based filesystem is used as root. > Actually, when you say "root=/dev/sda1" to LILO, real-root-dev contains 0x801. No problem.
I'm using this setup for standard system boot. LILO loads the kernel and a compressed RAM disk from hard disk. /linuxrc tries to load all those pesky SCSI adapters until it finds one that actually works. The rest is loaded from disk.
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