Re: Mounting a spares root fs

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Nov 1998 07:40:58 GMT

Followup to: <199811212014.VAA12655@capway.com>
By author: "christophe leroy" <christophe.leroy5@capway.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I'm creating a Linux i386 based card for a embedded system.
> I'd like to be able to boot on /dev/sda1 when zip drive is present
> and on /dev/ramdisk when zip drive is absent.
>
> Is that possible ?
>
> (I dont want to use initrd and I cannot modify options passed to
> kernel)
>

There are three ways to do it: use initrd, modify the options passed
to the kernel appropriately, or modify the mount_root() routine in the
kernel.

-hpa

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