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Re: [rtl] robust boot and shutdown



> Just a little newbie question: in order to achieve speed and a good
> robustness of an embedded system, in order to let user to switch off
> without a shutdown procedure and avoiding  those bad filesystem checks
> ), should I load everything on a Ramdisk? Any hints about it ?

I'm using RT-linux on a modified LRP-distribution (similar to miniRTL) and 
there the whole root is on Ramdisk. In my case the system boots from an 
IDE flashdisk by using syslinux and the kernel initrd feature.
System works very stable.

Bojan