From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Unterkircher <unki@netshadow.at>
Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:34:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41D306AF.1020500@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041229191525.GA2597@node1.opengeometry.net>
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.
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-29 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-27 19:56 waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? William Park
2004-12-27 20:10 ` Trent Lloyd
2004-12-27 21:23 ` Andreas Unterkircher
2004-12-28 1:54 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-12-29 0:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 1:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-29 1:56 ` William Park
2004-12-29 12:49 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-29 19:15 ` William Park
2004-12-29 19:34 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2004-12-29 20:59 ` William Park
2004-12-29 21:26 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-12-31 19:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-12-29 21:53 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-12-29 22:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-30 15:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-30 23:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 1:45 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 3:58 ` William Park
2004-12-31 4:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-31 11:31 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 9:49 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 8:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-31 11:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 11:26 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 8:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-31 11:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-31 12:04 ` Paulo Marques
2004-12-31 17:36 ` William Park
2004-12-31 17:48 ` Tomasz Torcz
2004-12-31 18:18 ` William Park
2004-12-31 0:22 ` William Park
[not found] <fa.nc4oh06.1j1872e@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.nalafoa.1ih25aa@ifi.uio.no>
2004-12-31 12:33 ` Bodo Eggert
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