From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joonas Lahtinen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/efi-stub.txt: Fix a typo Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:08:15 +0300 Message-ID: <1445580495.4957.5.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <1445430404-1908-1-git-send-email-joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roy Franz Cc: "Linux EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) development" , Matt Fleming List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On to, 2015-10-22 at 15:58 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Joonas Lahtinen > wrote: > > In the command invocation "initrd=\Kernels\..." should really read > > "initrd=\Ramdisks\..." instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen > > --- > > Documentation/efi-stub.txt | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt b/Documentation/efi > > -stub.txt > > index 7747024..e1ee764 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/efi-stub.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/efi-stub.txt > > @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ fs0:> > > to boot with the initrd-large.img file if the current working > > directory is fs0:\Kernels, the following command must be used, > > > > - fs0:\Kernels> bzImage.efi initrd=\Kernels\initrd-large.img > > + fs0:\Kernels> bzImage.efi initrd=\Ramdisks\initrd-large.img > > > > I don't think this change is correct. From just above in efi > -stub.txt: > > For example, given the following directory layout, > > fs0:> > Kernels\ > bzImage.efi > initrd-large.img > > Ramdisks\ > initrd-small.img > initrd-medium.img > > > The file initrd-large.img is in the Kernels directory, and the point > of this section > is to highlight that the path given to "initrd=" must be absolute. > True so, I was skip reading it seems. Based on that, I'd consider the example somewhat misleading (Ramdisks directory only add some confusion). Regards, Joonas > Roy > > > > > Notice how bzImage.efi can be specified with a relative path. > > That's > > because the image we're executing is interpreted by the EFI shell, > > -- > > 2.4.3 > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux > > -efi" in > > the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Joonas Lahtinen Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation