[U-Boot-Users] How does u-boot inform the linux kernel of a JFFS2 root filesyst em?

Robert Schwebel robert at schwebel.de
Tue Mar 30 13:17:35 CEST 2004


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:59:07AM +0100, Mark Doherty wrote:
> I can use fsload to load the kernel image into ram, once in ram I can launch
> the kernel using bootm <address of kernel image>. Previously I had been
> using a ramdisk arrangement which I configured by launching the kernel with
> a bootm <address of kernel image> <address of ramdisk> and informing the
> kernel within the bootargs of root=/dev/ram, how should I pass the location
> of the root filesystem to the kernel?  

root=/dev/mtdblock0

Robert
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