From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FYPcp-0002Oc-MU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:38:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k3PFb62Q008433; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:37:06 GMT Received: from hm-pop2.solinus.com (hm-pop2.solinus.com [66.18.18.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3PFWqLq000102 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:32:53 GMT X-Envelope-From: kmb@mikienet.com X-Envelope-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Received: From c-68-33-229-113.hsd1.md.comcast.net (68.33.229.113) by hm-pop2.solinus.com (HOSTMAIL) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:32:52 -0000 (GMT) From: "K. Mike Bradley" To: Subject: [gentoo-user] Initramfs question Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:32:52 -0400 Message-ID: <000901c6687d$845dd360$0300a8c0@samantha> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <000301c6687a$be29d830$0300a8c0@samantha> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: AcZoeF8/VvGNK+egTj6mlwiIfyXUBwAAdO/QAAC8OlA= X-Archives-Salt: c3cd670a-7b2f-4cfb-ba64-e40f34bb239e X-Archives-Hash: bacd32e2adecaa7f966ae06e11e14135 Can anyone tell me why the latest Gentoo uses initramfs but it is loaded by GRUB using initrd? I though the initramfs was to be compressed into the kernel image? kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda3 udev initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list