Re: RAMDISK, part II

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Hello,
        Don't know if this will help but when I made the OpenBSD
firewall on a cdrom I had the same problem until I set root to be on
the cd in the kernel. You might need to change that on your but point
it to the radisk?

// cHeCksUm

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From: "Eduardo B. Fonseca" <ebf@cwb.fnn.net>
To: "Lista OpenBSD-misc" <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:24 PM
Subject: RAMDISK, part II


> *This message was transferred with a trial version of
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> 
>     Thanks to you guys, I was able to set up a 32 meg RAMDISK image
> and stick it into a kernel. Everything went great... just one
> problem... it does not boot :)
>     The obsd boot manager starts loading the kernel... then...
> reboots the machine... any ideas? Is there any limitation on the
> image size inside the kernel?
>     My steps were:
> 
>     * Create a brand new kernel with RAMDISK_HOOKS and
> MINIROOTSIZE... 
>     * Compile it
>     * Create the image...
>     * rdsetroot bsd < myimage
>     * copy everything to another harddrive
>     * installboot the other harddrive
>     * rebooted.
>     * Started to load the new kernel... boomm... rebooted :)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Eduardo B. Fonseca
ebf@cwb.fnn.net

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