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OK, thanks. |
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Pat |
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P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-| |
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote |
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> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <pat@××××××××.org> wrote about |
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> 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': |
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> > OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf |
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> > file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with |
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> > grub ??? |
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> Each distro has their own, although I think they were mostly spawned |
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> from mkinitrd from RedHat. I believe genkernel now creates |
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> initramfs (as opposed to initrd) files, and may have support for |
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> compiling the initramfs into the kernel. |
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> grub/lilo/xen loads an initramfs exactly the same as an initrd -- |
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> the kernel determines how to use the uncompressed data by looking |
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> for a cpio header. |
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> > Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-) |
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> Not that I've found. |
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