Re: toram boot option

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:53:00PM -0600, Paul Gray wrote:
> 
> Just as a follow-up and a synopsis of "how" to work things currently:
> 
> HEAD now has a run-in-ram-and-free-your-cd-drive option.  At the boot
> prompt, specify your framebuffer mode, "rir", and "default" ('2' should
> work too), as in:
> 
> 	4 rir default
> 
> for 1024x768 framebuffer, running in ram (freeing the CD), and runlevel
> "default".  You can use "rir", "runinram", or "toram" as the option.

Great! I don't have a debian system, so I'll probably have to wait for
the next release. I'm finding LNX-BBC very useful and I'm handing out
lots of copies, but the run-in-ram feature will make it even better.

> If you leave off "default", it's booting into runlevel 5 (custom)for some
> reason.  I'm looking into why that's so.
> 
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