[parisc-linux] MAKE initrds FAST

[parisc-linux] MAKE initrds FAST

[willy]

An interesting project someone might want to take on:

I waste a fair bit of time copying executables from hpux to linux,
mounting a ramdisk over loopback, putting the executable into the
disk, unmounting it, copying the ramdisk back to hpux, making a new
kernel and then booting it.

If someone has some spare time, they might want to investigate using
libext2fs to build a ramdisk under HPUX.  Red Hat's mkinitrd doesn't
work like this, so can't be usefully adapted.  libext2fs is available
as part of e2fsprogs, available from most ftp sites world-wide :-)

Re: [parisc-linux] MAKE initrds FAST

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:51:02PM -0500, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> 
> An interesting project someone might want to take on:

it's sure an interesting project, but there already is a solution for your 
problem in the current cvs. It's called NFS root:-)

Right now sash is running on my A180 started from a NFS mounted root.

Thomas.

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