Re: How to let INITRAMFS continue as root filesystem?

2007-03-15 Thread Rajat Jain
On 3/16/07, Rajat Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am using Linux kernel 2.6.15 on a MIPS embedded box. I am booting up successfully using an initramfs compressed cpio archieve as my root, but only after MANUALLY COMMENTING the call to prepare_namespace() in init/main.c:init(). I referred

How to let INITRAMFS continue as root filesystem?

2007-03-15 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I am using Linux kernel 2.6.15 on a MIPS embedded box. I am booting up successfully using an initramfs compressed cpio archieve as my root, but only after MANUALLY COMMENTING the call to prepare_namespace() in init/main.c:init(). I referred to the following text in Documentation/early-usersp

Re: How does boot loader tell the kernel, the location of initrd?

2007-03-15 Thread Rajat Jain
> I am experimenting with initrd and my initrd fails to mount. My > bootloader (U-BOOT) coorectly loads the initrd into RAM as I can see. > > I am wondering how does the kernel get to know the address at which > the initrd is loaded by boot loader? How does the boot loader > communicate this to th

Screen doesnt refresh when I drag or scroll the mouse

2007-03-15 Thread Arun Mallikarjunan
Hi, I am running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 on a Dell Dimension 9150. It has a ATI Radeon X300 card. I installed the ati drivers as per the instructions on openSUSE website http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver Everything is working as they should except when I click on a file in Konqu

Re: How does boot loader tell the kernel, the location of initrd?

2007-03-15 Thread Rajendra
Every bootloader has different mechanism for loading the kernel image. I am talking of Grub boot loader here. Grub uses something called a multiboot specification. The specification documents the mechanism for passing data to and from the kernel image. Search for multiboot specification and i thin