Colin Dean wrote: > I'm in the process of building CLFS with the intention of making a > bootable CD that proceeds to load the entire OS onto a RAMdisk, using > the remainder of the available RAM for regular...RAM purposes, hehe. > > Any of you know of good reading material that may point me towards that > which I seek? > > Some Googling yielded initrd tutorials, but I think that initrd is meant > more for a temporary part of the boot process than running the entire > system for an indeterminate amount of time. > > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html > > That DeveloperWorks tutorial on initrd appeals to me. If ya'll think > that the initrd may work in my case, then I'll probably follow it. You may want to look into using device mapper to mount a root image (so that it's writable without massive memory requirements).
Instead of an initrd I'd look into including an initramfs image that locates the CD, mounts it, does whatever it needs todo to mount the image, then does a pivot_root into the image's root. I think this is (or is atleast similar to) what the lfs-livecd does. > > _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
