Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:08:06 -0800 | From | Stuart Lynne <> | Subject | Re: Initial Ramdisk |
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> > Does anyone use the initial ramdisk-feature?? I've > > got a problem with it: > > Booting goes straight on to the point when reading > > the ramdisk. The screen says: > > VFS Mounted root (minix filesystem) > > and then it hangs. > > Ok, I've figured something out. The initial-ramdisk tries to > start /linuxrc. And then it stops. What I do not > understand, is that it ran with 2.0.36.
I use this. But I use a patch available from the Linux Router Project to fix a problem associated with it. Here is blurb from the README:
> linuxrc-always_2: > > For some reason still not known to me, even if a /linuxrc file is present, > it will not be executed if root=/dev/ram0. This is real problem for > linux-router. This tiny patch fixes this, by moving the code that executes > /linuxrc outside this exclusive if statement. > > It also changes the default console linuxrc opens from /dev/tty1 > (/dev/console in 2.1) to /linuxrc.tty. This is done because in LRP (>=2.9.2) > /dev does not exist until linuxrc is run. linuxrc.tty is a special file in > the root directory: > mknod /linuxrc.tty c 4 1 > chown root.tty /linuxrc.tty > chmod 622 /linuxrc.tty > > > linuxrc-always_2-2.0: > For 2.0 series kernels. (made against 2.0.34) > Should work for most 2.0 kernels with varying degress of offsets. > > linuxrc-always_2-2.1: > For 2.1 series kernels. (made against 2.1.124) > Should work for most 2.1 kernels with varying degress of offsets.
For more information see:
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
-- Stuart Lynne <sl@fireplug.net> 604-461-7532 <http://edge.fireplug.net> PGP Fingerprint: 28 E2 A0 15 99 62 9A 00 88 EC A3 EE 2D 1C 15 68
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