Re: Booting from a non block device

2001-01-02 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The main.c file is hardwired to boot from a block device, and as such > I can't think of a good way to get around it and put in a filesystem > instead. Should I just cheat and put in a fake block device? That's what NFSroot does. I suppose you could also argue tha

Booting from a non block device

2000-12-28 Thread Shane Nay
I need to get rid of the abstraction that a block device brings because I need to run things in XIP (execute in place) mode from our cramfs partition. (We have uncompressed and aligned files inter mingled with our cramfs stuff so that the entire distro can be updated in a single flash) The on