Jivin Crane, Matthew lays it down ...
> Hi, 
> 
> I would like to boot a very memory constrained system, I do not want the
> kernel to decompress an initrd to RAM, I want it to use a romfs directly
> from flash as the rootfs.  Can I specify this from the command line and
> pass the offset to the kernel from the command line somehow?   Any help
> much apreciated.

Easy.  Depending on the kernel version you have your just need blkmem or
mtd drivers with a map for your rom,  then mount root from there.
Just change the word flash to rom in the following and you will have
most of it:

http://www.ucdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/11/1049210
http://www.ucdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/041251

Cheers,
Davidm

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David McCullough,  [EMAIL PROTECTED],   Ph:+61 734352815
Secure Computing - SnapGear  http://www.uCdot.org http://www.cyberguard.com
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