flashrd ramdisk Why go through the trouble? Ramdisk must stay very small, it steals precious low system memory! Therefore, bootstrap must populate /etc, /sbin, /bin, /usr And, do it ahead of /etc/rc! mkvndmnt: for i in $vnddirs; do dev=$vnd${part[$x]} if ! fsck -p /dev/$dev; then fail=1 fi if ! mount -o noatime /dev/$dev /$i; then fail=1 fi ... done