From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James DeVincentis Subject: Re: A way to let initramfs continue as THE final root filesystem? Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:54:27 -0600 Message-ID: <4AF04423.70500@nexcast.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Rajat Jain Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Yes, I have done this myself when booting from a CD. I load the kernel and the initramfs into memory and then boot. Here is my configured bootline to do it: kernel linux append ramdisk_size=64000 initrd=base_fs init=/sbin/init root=/dev/ram0 rw - James On 11/3/2009 4:37 AM, Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use an embedded cpio archieve (initramfs) to boot my > embedded board, and I'm curious is there a way to let initramfs be the > final root filesystem for my kernel? > > Thanks, > > Rajat > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs