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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HK1sw-0008T2-Im for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:32:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1M0USdt017059; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:30:28 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1M0PpgP012257 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:25:51 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60EF01926F for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:25:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MzTRUsl6-2dW for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4712819237 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:25:49 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <45DCCAED.40709@xvalheru.org> <200702211716.46842.bss03@volumehost.net> <20070222000520.M66316@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20070222000520.M66316@xvalheru.org> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2741357.jjdu00rfLT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702211825.41801.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 89bbf1a1-4d26-4431-8eff-392cabfc96e9 X-Archives-Hash: 2a603ca26a819ee95546a434eba5e258 --nextPart2741357.jjdu00rfLT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" wrote about 'Re:=20 [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf > file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with > grub ??? Each distro has their own, although I think they were mostly spawned from=20 mkinitrd from RedHat. I believe genkernel now creates initramfs (as=20 opposed to initrd) files, and may have support for compiling the initramfs= =20 into the kernel. grub/lilo/xen loads an initramfs exactly the same as an initrd -- the=20 kernel determines how to use the uncompressed data by looking for a cpio=20 header. > Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-) Not that I've found. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! --nextPart2741357.jjdu00rfLT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF3OMF55pqL7G1QFkRAhdOAKCTuzSP9Om5oYzuR5GrKI6x/i03vACfe1z2 LGZg5BfNfrxD+B2qt54LiQg= =0qpm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2741357.jjdu00rfLT-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list