Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Mar 2003 17:05:32 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. |
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I can change the contents of my ramdisk as easily as I can change > the kernel command line. For the complex setups just placing > a configuration file in the ramdisk is what seems to work the best > in practice.
You'll forgive me if I don't think that "change the contents of ramdisk" is as easy as changing the kernel command line.
Last time I checked, to change the contents of a ramdisk image, you needed to ungzip it, mount it, make some changes, unmount it, re-gzip it, and re-install the thing. Or, in the case of initramfs, you need to rebuild the kernel image. Compare this to changing the kernel command line from "root=/dev/hda1" to "root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp" in the boot loader by hitting a few keys on the keyboard before the kernel loads, and I think you'll start to get my point here.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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