On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 10:55:16PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > In message <[🔎] 19990505105516.A26745@gondor.apana.org.au> you wrote: > >The best way to solve the problem is to introduce initrd. Has anyone been > >looking into this recently? What are the difficulties that you've encountered > >if any? > I think we're definately going to go this way for potato. If the kernel is booted with initrd and IDE / SCSI as modules, it needs a root filesystem on a RAM disk. How do we free this ramdisk, after the modules are loaded. I don't want to have this ramdisk stay forever as the root device. Remember: We want the kernel to be the same for the installation process and for the real system. And even if we abandon this concept (which could save us a few precious kB on the bootfloppy) only a kernel that will load the needed drivers only, will save us from probing unwanted hardware. Is it possible to mount the harddisk "over" the ramdisk and then freeing the latter? How? Kernel patch needed? Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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