From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261401AbUL2TeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:34:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261403AbUL2TeO (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:34:14 -0500 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:29831 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261401AbUL2TeJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:34:09 -0500 Message-ID: <41D306AF.1020500@grupopie.com> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:34:07 +0000 From: Paulo Marques Organization: Grupo PIE User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Park Cc: Jesper Juhl , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Unterkircher Subject: Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? References: <20041227195645.GA2282@node1.opengeometry.net> <20041227201015.GB18911@sweep.bur.st> <41D07D56.7020702@netshadow.at> <20041229005922.GA2520@node1.opengeometry.net> <20041229015622.GA2817@node1.opengeometry.net> <41D2A7BE.2030806@grupopie.com> <20041229191525.GA2597@node1.opengeometry.net> In-Reply-To: <20041229191525.GA2597@node1.opengeometry.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.29.0.5; VDF: 6.29.0.39; host: bipbip) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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