Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:34:07PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >[...] I read Documentation/initrd.txt and I don't understand it.  If
> >I understand it right, I have to build a complete root filesystem
> >with all the stuffs necessary for mounting the second (real) root
> >filesystem.  If I'm loading the kernel from floppy, then I only have
> >200k to work with.  I'll try initrd.txt, step by step over the
> >holidays.
> 
> Yes, but if you use "nash" as a script parser and compile everything
> you need static with dietlibc or uClibc (or some other small libc
> replacement), 200k will be plenty to accomplish what you want. You'll
> probably be able to find pre-compiled binaries like these on the net,
> if you search for them.
> 
> Of course this is much more work than simply patch the kernel to wait
> a little, but with this training you'll be able to handle similar
> situations in the future were there is no patch to solve them.

I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware
distribution (A, AP, N, X series).  And, now, you're telling me to build
a 200kB root filesystem?  I need beer...

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William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
Linux solution for data processing.