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diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt index 6c820baa19a6..fa72e97dd669 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt @@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ the RAM disk dynamically grows as data is being written into it, a size field is not required. Bits 11 to 13 are not currently used and may as well be zero. These numbers are no magical secrets, as seen below: -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000 -./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000 +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_IMAGE_START_MASK 0x07FF +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_PROMPT_FLAG 0x8000 +./arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:#define RAMDISK_LOAD_FLAG 0x4000 Consider a typical two floppy disk setup, where you will have the kernel on disk one, and have already put a RAM disk image onto disk #2. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The command line equivalent is: "prompt_ramdisk=1" Putting that together gives 2^15 + 2^14 + 0 = 49152 for an rdev word. So to create disk one of the set, you would do: - /usr/src/linux# cat arch/i386/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0 + /usr/src/linux# cat arch/x86/boot/zImage > /dev/fd0 /usr/src/linux# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 /usr/src/linux# rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152 |
