Re: Booting from a non block device

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 10:51:18 EST

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shane@agendacomputing.com said:
> The main.c file is hardwired to boot from a block device, and as such
> I can't think of a good way to get around it and put in a filesystem
> instead. Should I just cheat and put in a fake block device?

That's what NFSroot does. I suppose you could also argue that's what JFFS
does too, because it doesn't actually _use_ the mtdblock device for
anything but getting a handle on the underlying MTD device.

-- dwmw2

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