[coreboot] Ram disk and compressed kernel...

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 09:47:38 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rick Ant<rick_077 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Sorry about the 512Kbytes questions, i'm interested with this matter...
> Anybody has an experience on how to use coreboot and RAMdisk ?
> my idea is
> coreboot is running for the first time creating ramdisk, alike with liveCD
> for linux then copy the kernel to ramdisk, i saw a system with 256Kbytes
> running X-server, i'm sure it's using RAMdisk...or maybe other method ?


256 kbytes? Are you certain? Can you get a URL?

It is very unlikely it was running an x server and linux as well.
4     0  3406  3402  20   0 821264 145520 -     Rs+  tty7     141:29
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten
tcp vt7

Rick, I think you need to do more homework before posting further questions.


ron




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