[linux-lvm] Ramdisk: Why not boot compressed from hda ?

[Andreas Dilger]

This message I saw today in c.o.l.d.s (in case anyone missed it) looks
interesting, especially since some people have tried to install a similar
setup with LVM, so that the root filesystem can live in LVM (ie rootvg)...

Maybe it's worth another shot at booting from LVM?

Cheers, Andreas
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> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system
> 
> My problem is this:
> If I try to boot a compressed kernel into ramdisk from the hard drive
> (hda1), it fails!
> This works successfully if I do the same thing from  fd0.
> 
> I traced this behaviour to a source line in "rd.c" where it tests to see
> if the Major # of the booting device
> is for the floppy! Why ?
> 
> I commented this line out and now I can load a compressed Kernel from
> hda1 into ram0.
> [snip]
> 
> thanks
> Vipin
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