Re: APEX, NSLU2, skip stuff

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2006-08-13 15:28]:
> Are you sure that will work?  Don't you have to append all of the
> initramfs to the kernel?

No, you don't.  It can be a separate file and the kernel will check
whether it looks like an initrd or an initramfs during boot.

> Doesn't that mean that there will be one large kernel partition and
> not ramdisk partition?

Nope.

# copy -s fis://kernel@16 0x00008000
1179616 bytes transferred
# copy -s fis://ramdisk@16 0x01000000
6553584 bytes transferred
...
Linux version 2.6.17-2-ixp4xx (Debian 2.6.17-6)...
...
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200
...
checking if image is initramfs... it is
...
Freeing init memory: 88K
Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd.
Entering low memory mode, please wait ...

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Martin Michlmayr
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