[ale] Shutdown process

[Chris Fowler]

 It all seems to work.  Things did get screwed up after /dev/ram7 was mounted.  It also seemed that init was executed and an attempt was made to run the only thing that I had in inittab.  Init complaind that it could not find the program.  I did not have time to finish it up today ut I do not remeber changing the rootfs from /dev/fla1 for /dev/ram7 in /etc/fstab.  I believe that when mount -a was called in rc.sysinit an attempt was made to mount /dev/fla1 onto /.  Will that happen if /dev/ram7 is at /?  I believe that did happen because init did happen to load my inittab.  That is my educated guess but I did not get to investigate.

Thanks,
Chris  


-----Original Message-----
From: byron at cc.gatech.edu
To: ale at ale.org
To: ChrisF at computone.com
Sent: 1/5/01 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Shutdown process


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> I have sahs and it is there.
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> To learn, I have put everything but /usr on the image
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> I will do the following
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> mount -o ro /dev/fla1 /rootfs
> gzip -cd /rootfs/.runimage.gz > /dev/ram0
> umoutn /dev/rootfs
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> linuxrc terminates
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> /dev/ram0 -> /
> and /dev/fla1 is mounted as /usr as specifed in /etc/fstab on the
image
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> This should work fine right?


How big is the image? You must remember that the default ramdisk size is
4M
and it truncates anything after that unless you specify a ramdisk size
parameter on the kernel boot/LILO line.


Other than that, yes it should work fine.


BAJ
> 
> Chris