Update on boot to ram stuff

Paul Gray <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:30:54 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just wanted to update everyone on some boot-to-ram testing that's being
done, but not commmitted.

The issue that I'm trying to "fix" is that it takes more than twice the
singularity size to boot to ram -- 128MB of ram on the system isn't enough
to boot the latest HEAD images.  The HEAD images are running ~ 64Mb.

Instead of using busybox's "cp", I've tried using busybox's cat and dd to
see if I could squeeze the singularity into ram, but neither seemed to
lessen the fingerprint.

On the other hand, I do have some "error recovery code" for when loading
to ram fails; which prompts the user to continue to boot from the CD.
It's in the queue for commit RSN.

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