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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:47:11 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
CC: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>> All right.
>>> I see that initramfs is attached to the kernel itself.
>>>
>>> So it leaves me only a question: will I fit all tools into 300 kB 
>>> (considering I'll use uClibc and busybox)?
>>>
>>
>> You don't need to use busybox and have a bunch of tools.
>>
>> The klibc distribution comes with "kinit", which does the equivalent 
>> to the kernel root-mounting code; it's in the tens of kilobytes, at 
>> least on x86.  If you're using ARM, you can compile it as Thumb.
> 
> Hmm, I'm having problems compiling klibc-1.4 on ARM (using gcc-4.1.1):
> 

Could you send me your kernel .config, as well as what version of the 
kernel you're building against?

	-hpa

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