[klibc] booting initramfs

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Tue Nov 4 09:56:44 PST 2003


On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:59, uaca at alumni.uv.es wrote:

> when It tries to mount the rootfs it tries to mount from 
> an IDE device (where the kernel was built from), and not from 
> the initramfs "image"

The initramfs filesystem is already "mounted" before the IDE drive gets
mounted.  You have to hack some of the init code to force it to not
mount anything, then it will drop into initramfs.

	<b



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