Re: how do I run an initial ram disk with grub?

[Leendert Meyer]

On Friday 10 May 2002 17:18, Sottek Sandra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried in several ways to run initrd with grub 0.92, but somehow it
> doesn't work.
>
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/initrd.txt.html says I have to give
> the parameters
>
>   root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw
>
> so I made the following entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
> title ram disk
>       kernel /bzImage_1.0 root=/dev/ram0 init=/sbin/init rw
>       initrd /initrd_1.0.gz

Here's a real entry that I use everyday:

<---cut-here--->
title  SuSE Linux 7.3 on /dev/hda9 - kernel 2.4.18 - 132x60
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-4GB disableapic root=/dev/hda9 vga=10 
video=vesa:off video=riva:off
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-4GB
savedefault
<---cut-here--->

HTH,

Leen