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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: Xen bootloader
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:22:58 -0600
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Michael Loehr wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> we always talk about an 'initrd' but in fact this is normally an initramfs
> ...


 From my point of view, there are several things.

there's the old initrd

there's the cpio-format initrams

there's the initramfs you can build into a bzimage, by specifying 
several directories in the .config file, that automagically get bundled 
up into the bzImage. This last type is broken (build side) until recently.

ron