On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Martin Hejl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
oops - sorry
Hi Nicol,
make that Hi David
I wasn't trying to make any point; just sharing my experiences that
(1) tinygentoo image was easy to work with for creating uclibc-linked
this and that (2) with a 2.6 you can
Hi David,
(2) with a 2.6 you can embed your whole file system into the
kernel and boot and go just from the kernel -- no file system at all --
that way you don't have to pivot-root from the initrd -- just stay there.
That's not correct. Indeed you can make a choice to include the initramfs
Hi David,
I'm sort of fishing for stories about why that might be a bad idea, beyond
that 1: it varies from standard practice and 2: the initramfs is not backed
by swap, as normal shmfs is
Well, one downside of this approach is that you cannot control the size
of the root-fs by a variable in
Hi David,
(2) with a 2.6 you can embed your whole file system into the
kernel and boot and go just from the kernel -- no file system at all --
that way you don't have to pivot-root from the initrd -- just stay there.
I'm sort of fishing for stories about why that might be a bad idea,
