From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@comcast.net>
Cc: Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Booting from RAM Disk
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:34:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BF5302.4030602@secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BF4AB8.6030003@comcast.net>
David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
> initramfs does nto exist in 2.4, but despite a dearth of information it
> works extremely well in 2.6.
>
> Set CONFIG_INITRAMFS=path to directory tree to build into ramdisk, and
> the kernel building process will take care of most evrything else.
> Unlike initrd, there are not two separate files, that each have to be
> loaded. The initial ramdisk is part of the kernel image, gets
> uncompressed by the kernel, and is just generally painless - except for
> the scarcity of documentation.
So... have are been able to use initramfs as a drop in replacement for
initrd, or did you have to jump through extra hoops? I attempted to use
initramfs a few months ago, but wasn't ever able to get it to run init.
g.
--
Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
(403) 663-0761
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 21:19 Booting from RAM Disk Matt Jerdonek
2006-01-06 22:16 ` Matt Jerdonek
2006-01-07 4:59 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-01-07 5:34 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2006-01-07 20:42 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-01-09 16:50 ` Grant Likely
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