RE: use ramdisk as root file system

[zhu shi song]

initramfs can only be supported under 2.6 kernel.  I'm
using kernel 2.4.

--- Dave Aubin  wrote:
> Here is a good way to do initramfs.  Initramfs
> becomes part of the
> kernel and
> Then executes it's programs in user space which
> makes things nice.  But
> there
> Are other advantages as well.  Feel free to read
> these while on the
> thrown;)

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-hackers/2004-June/001424.html
>

http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Jul/0154.html
> http://lwn.net/Articles/14776/
>
> For my needs initramfs is a life saver, but initrd
> is good too.  Heck
> you could 
> Go NFS if you wish.
>
> Enjoy,
> Dave:)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
> Of zhu shi song
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:53 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: use ramdisk as root file system
>
> I now can boot my QDIA6T(vt8601/vt82c686b) MB using
> hard disk as root
> file system though there is no vga turned on.  But I
> don't need HD. I
> hope I can mount RAMDisk as my root filesystem which
> can be read and
> written.  How should I do to start such work?  I
> have read some material
> about initrd but I don't understand it very clearly.
>
> tks
> zhu
>
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