Re: ramdisk

[linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Xu Yang wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to use ramdisk to boot my filesystem, as I can't use NFS and harddisk.
>
> I have load the ramdisk into the ram memory (start address :0x4000000)
>
> and in the boot options I specified : root =dev/ram0 initrd=0x4000000

Since you don't know what the default directory is, perhaps
root should be /dev/ram0. Also, make sure you actually create
those device nodes in /dev

[Snipped...]

> but the kernel said it can not find any file system on it.
>
> regards,
>
> Yang
>

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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