Subject: Re: Boot with root as a ram disk?
To: None <cagney@highland.com.au>
From: Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
List: tech-ports
Date: 06/14/1995 13:26:44 
>In the same style as the old MINIX boot method.
>
>Any one done this?  (Clearly it is to delay the need to write working
>device drivers :-)

Sure! NetBSD/pc532 uses a ram disk as the root disk for an initial
installation.  It works with a serial port and no floppy! 

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Phil Nelson
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