From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: shane@agendacomputing.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Booting from a non block device
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:51:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2676.978450678@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0012280214100G.32196@www.easysolutions.net>
In-Reply-To: <0012280214100G.32196@www.easysolutions.net>
shane@agendacomputing.com said:
> The main.c file is hardwired to boot from a block device, and as such
> I can't think of a good way to get around it and put in a filesystem
> instead. Should I just cheat and put in a fake block device?
That's what NFSroot does. I suppose you could also argue that's what JFFS
does too, because it doesn't actually _use_ the mtdblock device for
anything but getting a handle on the underlying MTD device.
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dwmw2
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2000-12-28 2:14 Booting from a non block device Shane Nay
2001-01-02 15:51 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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