Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:29:48 -0500, Tom Austin wrote:
> 
>> It came in handy when I was still trying to figure out how to make it
>> boot.  I could boot into a full environment without having to worry
>> about how to access the CF card and mount it.  I could actually get it
>> up and running, then play with things until I figured it out.
> 
> Oh yeah, very much so.  The thing to remember is if you rebuild your 
> kernel, you also need to rebuild your initrd with 'mkinitrd' or you'll 
> find the system won't boot.
> 
> Jim

actually now that I've had more time to think about it, I was actually 
using initramfs which has settings to build and pack with the kernel 
image.  Made it very simple indeed.

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