Re: Kernel setup() and initrd problems

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:43:14 -0800


Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> Below is the script that I used to pivot from a standard ramdisk (for with
> the infrastructure is already in place in our build environment) to a tmpfs
> filesystem. This requires no changes to the boot args.
>
> This script runs as /sbin/init, sets up the tmpfs filesystem, pivots, and
> hands off control to the real init program.
>

... which means that you either have boot args or rdev so that /dev/ram0
is the root filesystem (or it wouldn't work.)

-hpa

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