Hi all,
Could anybody give me directions of how to boot linux on an
EBSA-285, using a ramdisk image as the root filesystem? I'd like to
upload kernel+ramdisk image over serial port.
I am using bios-1.06 w. ebsa285-bios-1.06.diff2 (no angel), kernel
2.2.15 w patch rmk1 and Nicolas Pitre's ramdisk (ramdisk_img.gz).
I was under the impression that this could be done by appending the
ramdisk image to the kernel image and upload the resulting file with
ymodem.
i.e. % dd if=ramdisk_img.gz of=zImage bs=1k seek=240 (kernel
size ~ 238k)
In the manual boot menu of the bios I added the extra parameters:
ramdisk_start=240 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/ram
Now, obvioulsly this wasn't the correct way of doing things since it
didn't work. I would very much appreciate any help or pointers
towards more information regarding proper use of the ramdisk/initrd.
Thanks a lot guys,
- Mathias
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