Hi, Felix Mellmann wrote: > Hello everbody, > > I'm still keen on getting my NAS booting from the hdd. > Currently, there are some problems to solve. The kernel command line is > hard-coded during its compilation and is not changeable. Unfortunately > "root=/dev/ram0" skips /linuxrc in the initrd-image and treats this image as > the real root partition and executes /sbin/init. So exchanging the > initrd-image with one, that just replaces the root-partion with /dev/hda2 and > executing /sbin/init from /dev/hda2 would not work. > I thought of mounting the hdd and soft-linking everything onto the ramdisk as > Knoppix does, but this is not flexible enough for me. > > So the only way would be recompiling the kernel. Raidsonic has only published > the 2.4 sources which includes the patches needed for the sl2312 platform. push them to ... > > Has anyone beeing succesful with compiling those kernel sources? Or, let me > pose the question with other words: how did one enable the usb support in the > kernel located at http://nas-2000.org/download/kernel/ (which is indeed a 2.6 > kernel)? I don't know of anybody who had success the kernel is stolen from a "DUAL HDD NAS" based on a storlink board as well. Again please read this manpage "man pivot_root" im pretty sure it will help you!!! -- Flip > > with best regards, > Felix >