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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 05:03:53 +0000
From: Scott Anderson <sanders@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: mount RAMDISK directly on rom
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Jari wrote:
> Is there anyone know how to let the uncompressed ramdisk image in the
> rom,
> and mount root system directly from it (read only)?

In general, I would add a driver that exposed your rom as a device and
then just tell your kernel that root is on your device.  I have
successfully used the MTD drivers to do exactly this in the past.  I'd
suggest poking around:
  http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/

    Scott Anderson
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