Re: Re: [Lnx-bbc-cvs] gar/boot/busybox/files

Paul Gray writes:

> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> 
> > > cp was added to busybox' capabilities to accomodate moving the
> > > singularity and cloop to the ram partition.
> > >
> > > If the system has sufficient ram, it'll free the cd drive.  If not,
> > > kernel panic.
> >
> 
> I just now verified that the runinram option "works" with my latest
> HEAD+nessus build. Earlier, a box with 64M kernel panic'd, but my laptop
> (with 512M) boots in ram, and frees the CD tray just fine.
> 
> I have some issues on this boot-to-ram image, but I don't know yet if
> they're related to the tmpfs or not (like not being able to ssh into the
> system when I've set root password and restarted ssh).  I would like to
> see if I could burn CDs now that my CDRW drive is free, if only I could
> mount my xfs partitions to access my iso. :)
> 
> What I can say is that with the "rir/runinram/toram" option, I can log
> in, start X, configure the net, and play around.  More exploration is
> warranted though;  feel free to play along at home.

Cool!

What do you say to making this netbootable next with PXELINUX?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to bring up an arbitrary PXE client on
a network under LNX-BBC provided you just had a suitable server
anywhere on the same segment?

You can avoid all that annoying nfsroot stuff if you can just TFTP the
image into a RAM disk...

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