[Trinux-talk] booting question

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After seeing your distribution, I became interested in making my own. I ran into problems though that I can't find a solution to on my own. I am working toward a live-cd distribution, but some directories need to be write-able, /etc, /var, /home. I moved all of the previous into /var using links, thinking that I would then mount /var into ramdisk. I haven't seen documentation on mounting ramdisk at boot, for non initrd purposes. The kernel I compiled already includes devfs, isofs, ext2fs and cdrom drivers compiled in, so it will not need to load any modules from initrd that cannot already be loaded directly from the cdrom. The problem for me is that I need to mount /var soon after / is mounted. I am not sure which startup script to look at. I have found extensive docs on the linux boot process from the kernel programming point of view, but none describing boot scripts, their order and their location. I use LILO for booting from an fd image that has just LILO and the kernel.

I appreciate your help

mike