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Re: loading a compressed ramdisk image



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> 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.

you don't need append="root=/dev/ram" yaboot does that automatically.

image=/boot/vmlinux-blah
	label=linux-with-initrd
	initrd=/boot/initrd-blah
	initrd-size=8192

the last line is because yaboot is not very smart about figuring out
ramdisk sizes, you may not need it try and see.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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