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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
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