lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Dec]   [31]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware
> >distribution (A, AP, N, X series). And, now, you're telling me to build
> >a 200kB root filesystem? I need beer...
>
> You don't need beer, you need busybox. The smallest initrd I made with
> busybox is 99kB (finds boot cdrom and sets up a ram disk as rootfs).

Hmmm... Since we have the equivalent function in slightly less than 7 kB in
Formilux, I think that I should document a bit more when I have some time so
that others can reuse it... I find it a shame to still need 99 kB to find a
CDROM, particularly when you need to put this on floppies.

Regards,
Willy

-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:09    [W:1.442 / U:0.544 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site