From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:05:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:26798 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S3950149AbWATTFC (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:05:02 +0000 Received: from vivi.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-vivi.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.12]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0KJ8mNY002605; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:08:48 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by vivi.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.6.4-CR) with ESMTP id EYX97794 (AUTH spbecker); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:08:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43D13539.9040406@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:08:41 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060118) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Karasek CC: Linux-Mips Subject: Re: how to emdedded ramdisk.gz in vmlinux for linux-2.6.14? References: <0F31272A2BCBBE4FA01344C6E69DBF501EAB1B@thoth.ivivity.com> <43CC39A0.8080704@gentoo.org> <1137515220.11738.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43CD9568.1000707@gentoo.org> <1137704865.22994.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43D06305.8070908@gentoo.org> <1137783751.22994.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1137783751.22994.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10027 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: geoman@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Marc Karasek wrote: > I am not entirely sold on this initramfs. > > I have a question: > >>>From what I have read so far, it seems that this is meant as a stepping > stone to booting/mounting the real system. Has anyone used this where > the initramfs is the filesystem and the endpoint in the boot process? Sure. Our Gentoo netboot installer images do this. -Steve