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From: "K. Mike Bradley" <kmb@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Initramfs question
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:38:52
Message-Id: 000901c6687d$845dd360$0300a8c0@samantha
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Newbie question re: /usr by "K. Mike Bradley"
1 Can anyone tell me why the latest Gentoo uses initramfs but it is loaded by
2 GRUB using initrd?
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4 I though the initramfs was to be compressed into the kernel image?
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7 kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0
8 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev
9 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
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Re: [gentoo-user] Initramfs question Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>