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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Subject: Re: Kernel setup() and initrd problems
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:43:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7230D2.7010309@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E722D31.6050702@nortelnetworks.com>

Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Below is the script that I used to pivot from a standard ramdisk (for with
> the infrastructure is already in place in our build environment) to a tmpfs
> filesystem.  This requires no changes to the boot args.
> 
> This script runs as /sbin/init, sets up the tmpfs filesystem, pivots, and
> hands off control to the real init program.
> 

... which means that you either have boot args or rdev so that /dev/ram0 
is the root filesystem (or it wouldn't work.)

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-14 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13  8:42 Kernel setup() and initrd problems Oliver Tennert
2003-03-13 17:16 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-13 18:05   ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-03-14 19:12   ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-14 19:27     ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-14 19:43       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-03-14 20:04         ` Chris Friesen
2003-03-14 20:42           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-03-14 20:53             ` Chris Friesen

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