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21 years ago

running Linux without flash

Hello, I have a custom board without flash memory. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif So I wonder, if it&#39;s possible to load the Kernel and rootfs ramdisk ...
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originally posted by mrks@Jul 1 2005, 03:58 PM

i have a custom board without flash memory. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#emo_dir#>/sad.gif so i wonder, if it&#39;s possible to load the kernel and rootfs ramdisk via uart in the sdram and then start it. any opinions?

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Once you have the kernel in memory, you can run you FS via NFS, we do it all the time during development, beats reloading the root FS every time you recompile and test some cgi program or application.