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 1HK29h-0008Cx-6R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:49:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1M0mhue006437; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:48:43 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [193.86.238.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1M0fcMn030102 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:41:38 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([193.86.238.3]:43550 helo=xvalheru.org) id 1HK21i-0002TD-Ii for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:41:38 +0100 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:41:38 +0100 Message-Id: <20070222004008.M29144@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <200702211825.41801.bss03@volumehost.net> References: <45DCCAED.40709@xvalheru.org> <200702211716.46842.bss03@volumehost.net> <20070222000520.M66316@xvalheru.org> <200702211825.41801.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20061019 X-OriginatingIP: 62.245.66.7 (pat@xvalheru.org) 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=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 2f7c8f32-256a-4d84-8157-c28ae45bd94b X-Archives-Hash: 27dc79a161fa70bfca9840cf2d0e1061 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" 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. > > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ > New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list