I've begun working on the next generation... and have Oxygen booting with an initial RAM disk - in preparation for running without the linuxrc patch.
Running without the initrd archive patch takes just a bit more, but shouldn't be too hard. Basically, what happens is linuxrc sets up a very basic root filesystem on /dev/ram1, copies itself over, then runs the bulk of the loading in a chroot'ed environment on the root filesystem. When it's all done, it dismounts everything it can and lets go - to let the kernel load init and swap root. Questions I'd have would be: 1. What parameters are from the patches and what should the non-patched kernel parms be? I suspect initrd_archive is an added parameter; I also suspect that root= should now read (in my case) root=/dev/ram1 - as this is what is used as root after everything is done. 2. What is the filesystem of the initial archive supposed to be? Can it be minix? -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
