[Fedora-livecd-list] Boot to RAM

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:20 +0000, mdlabriola at yahoo.com wrote:
> Does the current Fedora Live CD support loading the rootfs to RAM?  I thought I remembered that as a boot option in some of the earlier releases (Fedora 6?).

The code is still there.  It's not exercised much, though.  We removed
it from the menus as it can be pretty confusing to do reliably (how much
RAM is "enough")

> I googled a bit and found reference to a 'live_ram' command line arg and tried adding that and booting, but I get the following error:

Yep, that's the trick

> Done copying live image to RAM.
> eject: did not find a device /dev/root in /sys/block/

Sounds like a bug in eject -- it should follow the link and then do the eject

Jeremy