Re: Initramfs confusion

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa_at_zytor.com)
Date: 08/21/03

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Date:	20 Aug 2003 20:55:53 -0700

    Followup to: <200308161940.52579.gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
    By author: Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi@tbaytel.net>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
    >
    > I am just begining to test out 2.6 with an eye on use by X-terminals without
    > hard drives or NFS. As such I am quite enthusiastic about initramfs. After
    > much stumbling around I created a root image that I would like to test,
    > compiled into kernel and created image.
    >
    > I am doing testing under VMWare with 2.88 MB floppy images (for testing
    > purposes), but lilo is barfing trying to write to a regular file as a raw
    > device (doesn't know how to handle device 0x0700).
    >
    > I cannot use a real floppy because I do not have any 2.88 MB floppies
    >

    I suggest using SYSLINUX instead for floppies.

            -hpa 

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