From: Alexandr Andreev <andreev@niisi.msk.ru>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:35:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B2A4760.9010704@niisi.msk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106151824240.28914-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>It's not polite to respond to private messages in public fora.
>
>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Alexandr Andreev wrote:
>
>>Bootloader only jumps to the kernel entry point. The initrd image is
>>compiled inside the kernel.
>>
>
>So it's in a ROM or flash chip? Why copy it into memory then? We have
>support for ROM and flash chips.
>
No any flash, disk, floppy... only RAM, image is inside kernel.
#ls -s vmlinux
4852 vmlinux
#objdump --headers vmlinux
.data
.text
.bss
.initrd <- Here is the image.
...
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-15 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106151824240.28914-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>
2001-06-15 17:35 ` Alexandr Andreev [this message]
2001-06-15 13:35 Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine Alexandr Andreev
[not found] ` <14506.992621390@redhat.com>
2001-06-15 17:16 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-15 18:27 ` David L. Parsley
2001-06-19 13:24 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-19 14:04 ` David L. Parsley
2001-06-19 15:44 ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-19 16:36 ` Stephane Casset
2001-06-17 16:28 ` Pavel Machek
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