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,
>
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.
>
That's not correct. Indeed you can make a choice to include the initramfs
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
