Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sun, 9 Mar 2003 01:46:33 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module. |
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Em Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0000, Alan Cox escreveu: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:15, Michael Mueller wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > Sorry, but I must join Russel here. I have atleast one machine which has > > a bootloader able to load exactly one file only. There is currently no > > way to load an initrd. It would need to implement the whole (BOOTP+)TFTP > > stuff again, just to get the initrd. So I was quite happy linux 2.4 > > still knows about mounting a NFS root filesystem without user-space > > help. > > Just glue the initrd to the kernel. This is not rocket science
arch/sparc/boot/piggyback.c
Simple utility to make a single-image install kernel with initial ramdisk for Sparc tftpbooting without need to set up nfs.
Copyright (C) 1996 Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz) Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@yahoo.com> endian fixes for cross-compiles, 2000.
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