Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:59:40 -0500 | From | William Park <> | Subject | Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem? |
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:34:07PM +0000, Paulo Marques wrote: > William Park wrote: > >[...] I read Documentation/initrd.txt and I don't understand it. If > >I understand it right, I have to build a complete root filesystem > >with all the stuffs necessary for mounting the second (real) root > >filesystem. If I'm loading the kernel from floppy, then I only have > >200k to work with. I'll try initrd.txt, step by step over the > >holidays. > > Yes, but if you use "nash" as a script parser and compile everything > you need static with dietlibc or uClibc (or some other small libc > replacement), 200k will be plenty to accomplish what you want. You'll > probably be able to find pre-compiled binaries like these on the net, > if you search for them. > > Of course this is much more work than simply patch the kernel to wait > a little, but with this training you'll be able to handle similar > situations in the future were there is no patch to solve them.
I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware distribution (A, AP, N, X series). And, now, you're telling me to build a 200kB root filesystem? I need beer...
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