Re: Booting linux with a file as root??
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:06:25PM -0000, Andrew Holmes wrote:
> I configured my new machine to dual boot DOS and
> NT, but I can start BeOS using loadlin.exe from DOS. I know I can boot the
> linux kernel like this but how do I make it use a file on the DOS filesystem
> for the root filesystem. If this is impossiable please let me know. Any info
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :-)
It is possible, but it is a lot slower to access a filesystem
inside another filesystem (expecially a fat one) then directly
from a partition, so I would suggest to avoid this, unless the
root filesystem is so small that it can be put in a ramdisk.
-Michele
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