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SubjectRe: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 1/17/07, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
>> Does this make sense?
>
> Why not add this logic into your initramfs?

Because the kernel itself is on a small flash partition (RedBoot
executes the kernel from /dev/mtd1), which is only 1572864 bytes big.

So it leaves me only about 300 kB left (kernel is about 1.2 MB) for all
tools needed to script such a logic, and it includes all the tools I
would need.
Another obstacle would be to place the initramfs image on the same
partition as the kernel (normally, I dd kernel to /dev/mtd1).

Or perhaps, I don't understand initramfs correctly.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org






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