Re: PATCH: ramdisk loading status display is corrupted

Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
Wed, 10 Apr 96 21:59 PDT

On 9 Apr 96 at 18:55, Bruce Perens wrote:
> When loading a RAM disk at boot time, the kernel prints something like this:
>
> loading ramdisk... <5>/<5>-<5>\<5>|<5>/<5>-
>

From: "Ulrich Windl" <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
> Strange, I haven't seen it on the console in 1.3.74...

I think it only happens if you are loading an _uncompressed_ ram disk.

Bruce

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