[Devil-linux-develop] Re: RAM disk as root fs. Please help.

[Heiko Z. <smi...@zu...>]

Hi,

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I'm currently at work and can't look into your problem, probably later this evening.

Heiko

The following message was sent by Dmitry Boronin <dbo...@ca...> on Tue, 21 May 2002 00:14:42 +0400.

> îÅllo Heiko .
> My name is Dmitry Boronin, i am from Russia.
> 
> I look your Devil-Linux project , is good idea. )
> Also try make CD , but with root fs on /dev/ram1 and all binary files  
> on CD.
> 
> But has problem. ( 
> 
> Do you can  give a pair of councils on tune LinuxRC file ?
> 
> I has :
> 	1) read-only dirs on CD fs :
> /bin
> /lib
> /usr
> /ram.img
> ...
> 	2) boot floppy with initrd contain /startup/busybox :
> 
> linuxrc: 
> #!/startup/sh
> PATH=/bin:/startup:/cdrom/bin:/cdrom/sbin:/cdrom/usr/bin:/cdrom
> export
> insmod /lib/ide-mod.o
> insmod /lib/ide-probe-mod.o
> insmod /lib/cdrom.o
> insmod /lib/ide-cd.o
> insmod /lib/isofs.o
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom
> dd if=/cdrom/ram.img of=/dev/ram1 
> 
> RAM1 - is done :
> 	bin -> /mnt/cdrom/bin
> 	boot ->/mnt/cdrom/boot
> 	cdrom
> 	dev -> /mnt/cdrom/dev
> 	etc
> 	|
> 	+-> fstab:
> -----------------
> /dev/ram0               /                       ext2    defaults       
>  1 1
> /dev/cdrom              /cdrom                  iso9660 defaults       
>  0 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
>  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults       
>  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults       
>  0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 
> 0 0
> -------------------
> 	floppy
> 	home
> 	initrd
> 	lib -> /mnt/cdrom/lib
> 	list
> 	mnt
> 	root
> 	sbin -> /mnt/cdrom/sbin
> 	tmp
> 	usr -> /mnt/cdrom/usr
> 	var
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please , say me , how i can make /dev/ram1 as rootfs and cont. boot process 
> 
> from this is device ...
> 
> Regards . Dmitry Boronin.
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