From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:14:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:14:14 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:19462 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 05:14:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3DF71090.FB99177C@aitel.hist.no> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:16:48 +0100 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.51 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wz6b@arrl.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Expeiment with a simple boot? References: <200212100954.33462.wz6b@arrl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matt Young wrote: > > Using 2.5.50 is there a boot procedure such as: > > Turn off DEVFS and INITRDFS then specify the root device with major and minor > numbers in the linux command line, (using grub) Sure. You don't need devfs to boot. And you don't need any initrd either, of course. Just compile the drivers for your root disk and your root fs into the kernel instead of using modules for them. I never used an initrd - no need. I do this with lilo all the time, as I haven't looked at grub. Helge Hafting