Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-10 Thread alexb
I associate "embedded systems" with small systems that in general have some hardware limitations. To overcome this limitations sometimes we need to change traditional implementations to get the best result with less hardware. I thoght I got very far since pivot_root worked, but I faild to overcome

Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-10 Thread Lynn Avants
On Monday 09 June 2003 07:22 pm, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Lynn Avants wrote: [...] > > That *is* the difference between embedded and non-embedded. Embedded runs > > from a ramdisk and non-embedded runs from a non-RAM disk. ;) > > I beg to differ. There is no direct linkage betw

Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-09 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Lynn Avants wrote: > On Monday 09 June 2003 05:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't realy think i'm un-embedding, since i'm choosing to use a > > Disk-on-flash media to start the "embedded" OS. Floppys my fail and use > > much more energy than a disk-on-flash. Since the

Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-09 Thread Lynn Avants
On Monday 09 June 2003 05:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't realy think i'm un-embedding, since i'm choosing to use a > Disk-on-flash media to start the "embedded" OS. Floppys my fail and use > much more energy than a disk-on-flash. Since the smalest DoF I got have > 16Mb and I have memmory

Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-09 Thread alexb
I don't realy think i'm un-embedding, since i'm choosing to use a Disk-on-flash media to start the "embedded" OS. Floppys my fail and use much more energy than a disk-on-flash. Since the smalest DoF I got have 16Mb and I have memmory conserns (RAM=16Mb that I can't expand due to no spare mamory sl

Re: [leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-06 Thread Lynn Avants
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 06:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After I installed bering1.2 on /dev/hda1 of an disk-on-chip IDE, I whant to > release the ram used by the root device in /dev/ram0. > I copied the hole root into /dev/hda2 and made a new initrd2.lrp where I > added pertinent fs and incl

[leaf-user] Changing root to /dev/hda2

2003-06-05 Thread alexb
After I installed bering1.2 on /dev/hda1 of an disk-on-chip IDE, I whant to release the ram used by the root device in /dev/ram0. I copied the hole root into /dev/hda2 and made a new initrd2.lrp where I added pertinent fs and included some code in linuxrc to mount the new root. Then I added an opti