Re: [coLinux-devel] Initrd support?

[Pat E. <pat...@ma...>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:02:46 +0100 (CET)
ch...@to... wrote:

> did you create a new kernel with initrd support?
> 
> did you read /usr/src/Documentation/initrd.txt
> I think root=/dev/cobd0 init=/linuxrc
> needs the explicit change root commands at the end of linuxrc
> where as intrd=  can use a linuxrc that will automaticly pivot root at the
> end.
> 
> if you checked out all this you could privatly e-mail me your linuxrc and
> .config for your kernel and I can look it over. I could also do some
> further experiments with what I have tomorow. I think I stopped at the
> same place you are due to not having the commands needed on my initrd and
> realizing that I had stripped my linuxrc down to almost nothing and I came
> up with another way to do it.

actually, it'd be colinux' job to handle loading the initrd into ram.  the entire point of initrd is to load the initrd into ram and then pass vmlinuz the location of it and let it start processing it, having not had to do any disk io.

Pat Erley