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From: David L. P. <pa...@li...> - 2001-04-04 17:34:12
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Mark Atwood wrote: > > I can use mknbi-linux to make a netbootable linux kernel image with an > initrd. That works fine. > > Is their a way I can make a Linux NBI that has an "ordinary" root > filesystem ramdisk, one that does /bin/init instead of the > linuxrc/privot_root deal? Sure, just don't make a 'linuxrc' file, instead: root=/dev/ram init=/whatever/you/like (/sbin/init even). This is the right way to do things now, see linux/Documentation/initrd.txt. I use a shell script init which later exec's the real init - still pid=1. > Or am I stuck with having to construct an initrd that tftp's a > rootdisk image down and mounts and pivots to that? I use userspace tftp quite a bit for my work; what tftp are you using? I've patched RedHat's tftp-0.17 for command-line operation, and like it pretty well. The tftp included with busybox wasn't very robust and would frequently time out and fail. regards, David -- David L. Parsley Network Administrator Roanoke College |
