On Fri, 25 May 2001, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> how to get the kernel to mount initrd:
>
> 1. pick a location in ram (the very top of ram is commonly chosen, don't
> know why).
> 2. add code to linuxbios to copy your initrd image (a filesystem image,
> optionally gzipped) to that location in RAM.
> 3. set INITRD_START and INITRD_SIZE from params.c to the memory location
> and size of the initrd image.
> 4. start the kernel, it will automatically mount the initrd image.
This is *exactly* what we are doing right now with the ds10 so we have
a scyld initrd. It works.
We are probably going to need a config option for linuxbios for this.
ron
