use ramdisk as root file system

[Dave Aubin]

Here is a good way to do initramfs.  Initramfs becomes part of the
kernel and
Then executes it's programs in user space which makes things nice.  But
there
Are other advantages as well.  Feel free to read these while on the
thrown;)

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-hackers/2004-June/001424.html
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Jul/0154.html
http://lwn.net/Articles/14776/

For my needs initramfs is a life saver, but initrd is good too.  Heck
you could 
Go NFS if you wish.

Enjoy,
Dave:)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org
[mailto:linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of zhu shi song
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:53 AM
To: linuxbios at clustermatic.org
Subject: use ramdisk as root file system

I now can boot my QDIA6T(vt8601/vt82c686b) MB using hard disk as root
file system though there is no vga turned on.  But I don't need HD. I
hope I can mount RAMDisk as my root filesystem which can be read and
written.  How should I do to start such work?  I have read some material
about initrd but I don't understand it very clearly. 
tks
zhu


	
		
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