Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2003 19:04 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: > Here's what I want to do. I was told I need an initrd file. My small home > recording studio is booting from an internal EIDE drive, but doing most > everything else with 1394. All the apps are on the 1394 drive, and the > audio goes on and off of the 1394 drive. > > After booting I want to switch over and run Gentoo from a group of 1394 > drives located in a closet, and then spin down the EIDE drive to reduce > noise. > > I was told I'd need to start Linux using an initial RAM disk, and then > change over where the root file system is located after the 1394 drives > are found. > > I don't know how to do this, so I'm just learning step by step. If anyone > thinks this doesn't make sense, or has an easier way to do it, I'd > certainly be interested. I've got a little script which creates an initrd for my system. I use it mainly because I use EVMS2 and have / on a logical volume. So the initrd is used to activate EVMS volumes early in the boot process. It mainly creates an initrd, copies some stuff into it and compresses it. It also creates a linuxrc script which does the module loading and volume activation. Maybe this could be a good starting point. You just need to figure out which binaries should be copied to it to fit your needs and which modules linuxrc should load for 1394.
I could send it to you if you like (or post it here).
Bye...
Dirk
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