Re: loading a compressed ramdisk image

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> I'm trying to set up a system that will load a compressed root image
> from the disk (eventually flash) into a ramdisk and run the root
> filesystem from ram.  I was wondering if there is an "rdev" type utility
> for the PPC that lets the kernel know that it wants to load a compressed
> image into ram and what device that image lives on.

That's the bootloader's job on PPC. With a sane OF implementation, your
boot loader would be yaboot and something like initrd=<of-path to
ramdisk> and append="root=/dev/ram" should do.

	Michael