Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] RUNFROMRAM is not working?

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Dmitry Komarov wrote on 27.02.2007 21:25 MET:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 22:02, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> 
>>Hi Dmitry!
>>
>>Dmitry Komarov wrote on 27.02.2007 13:54 MET:
>>
>>>Short update:
>>>
>>>If I boot the system with separate configuration media (i.e. on USB
>>>stick) it loads into RAM as expected. But if I start the system without
>>>configuration media (the CD is preconfigured before burning and has
>>>RUNFROMRAM=y option) then it still mounts the CD and runs from it. How
>>>can I fix this?
>>
>>Can you please specify what "the CD is preconfigured before burning and has
>>RUNFROMRAM=y option" means?
>>
>>Are you talking about boot loader options? If yes, then this is currently
>>not supported as you need to have a configuration which contains the
>>"RUNFROMRAM=y" setting.
> 
> I mean that before building the ISO I have patched the master sysconfig/config 
> file to have RUNFROMRAM=y option. So it went to CD image with this option 
> already enabled.

When you then boot this CD, what do you do? Do you answer yes or no to 
"Would you really like to load DL without Configuration Media?"


>>>On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:33, Dmitry Komarov wrote:
>>>
>>>>My /etc/sysconfig/config file has RUNFROMRAM=y option enabled, but I see
>>>>that my boot CD is still mounted and the root filesystem still runs from
>>>>CD.
>>>>
>>>>Do I misunderstand the purpose of that option or something goes wrong?
>>>>What I need is to boot the system from the CD or USB flash, remove the
>>>>boot media and let the system run from memory.
>>>>
>>>>My compressed ISO image uses CRAMFS and is 76 MB in size. The host PC has
>>>>256 MB RAM.


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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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