Re: Initial Ramdisk

Stuart Lynne (sl@fireplug.net)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:08:06 -0800

> > Does anyone use the initial ramdisk-feature?? I've
> > got a problem with it:
> > Booting goes straight on to the point when reading
> > the ramdisk. The screen says:
> > VFS Mounted root (minix filesystem)
> > and then it hangs.
>
> Ok, I've figured something out. The initial-ramdisk tries to
> start /linuxrc. And then it stops. What I do not
> understand, is that it ran with 2.0.36.

I use this. But I use a patch available from the Linux Router Project to fix
a problem associated with it. Here is blurb from the README:

> linuxrc-always_2:
>
> For some reason still not known to me, even if a /linuxrc file is present,
> it will not be executed if root=/dev/ram0. This is real problem for
> linux-router. This tiny patch fixes this, by moving the code that executes
> /linuxrc outside this exclusive if statement.
>
> It also changes the default console linuxrc opens from /dev/tty1
> (/dev/console in 2.1) to /linuxrc.tty. This is done because in LRP (>=2.9.2)
> /dev does not exist until linuxrc is run. linuxrc.tty is a special file in
> the root directory:
> mknod /linuxrc.tty c 4 1
> chown root.tty /linuxrc.tty
> chmod 622 /linuxrc.tty
>
>
> linuxrc-always_2-2.0:
> For 2.0 series kernels. (made against 2.0.34)
> Should work for most 2.0 kernels with varying degress of offsets.
>
> linuxrc-always_2-2.1:
> For 2.1 series kernels. (made against 2.1.124)
> Should work for most 2.1 kernels with varying degress of offsets.

For more information see:

http://www.linuxrouter.org/

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