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Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?
- From: Willy Tarreau <willy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:32:47 +0100
- References: <20041227201015.GB18911@sweep.bur.st> <41D07D56.7020702@netshadow.at> <20041229005922.GA2520@node1.opengeometry.net> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412290231580.3528@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost> <20041229015622.GA2817@node1.opengeometry.net> <41D2A7BE.2030806@grupopie.com> <20041229191525.GA2597@node1.opengeometry.net> <41D306AF.1020500@grupopie.com> <20041229205940.GB3024@node1.opengeometry.net> <41D320F3.2010508@domdv.de>
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:26:11PM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >I finally wrote a script to build 200MB root filesystem from Slackware
> >distribution (A, AP, N, X series). And, now, you're telling me to build
> >a 200kB root filesystem? I need beer...
>
> You don't need beer, you need busybox. The smallest initrd I made with
> busybox is 99kB (finds boot cdrom and sets up a ram disk as rootfs).
Hmmm... Since we have the equivalent function in slightly less than 7 kB in
Formilux, I think that I should document a bit more when I have some time so
that others can reuse it... I find it a shame to still need 99 kB to find a
CDROM, particularly when you need to put this on floppies.
Regards,
Willy
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