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From: "pat" <pat@xvalheru.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:41:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070222004008.M29144@xvalheru.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702211825.41801.bss03@volumehost.net>

OK, thanks.

     Pat

P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-|

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <pat@xvalheru.org> wrote about 
> 'Re: [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 mkinitrd from RedHat.  I believe genkernel now creates 
> initramfs (as opposed to initrd) files, and may have support for 
> compiling the initramfs into the kernel.
> 
> grub/lilo/xen loads an initramfs exactly the same as an initrd --
>  the kernel determines how to use the uncompressed data by looking 
> for a cpio header.
> 
> > Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-)
> 
> Not that I've found.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-22  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-21 22:42 [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? pat
2007-02-21 23:16 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22  0:08   ` pat
2007-02-22  0:25     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22  0:41       ` pat [this message]
2007-02-22 10:07         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22  7:45       ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 10:08         ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 10:56           ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-22 11:05           ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 18:12           ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23  7:11             ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-23  9:36               ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-22  0:13 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22  0:29   ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22  0:39   ` pat
2007-02-22  1:50     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 10:08     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
     [not found]     ` <200702220958.49233.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 10:08       ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22  7:50   ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22  8:14     ` Neil Bothwick
     [not found]       ` <200702221108.31090.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22  9:18         ` pat
     [not found]           ` <200702220411.04512.bss03@volumehost.net>
2007-02-22 12:02             ` pat

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