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From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:26:15 -0800 (PST)
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--- Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> More precisely, the _BIOS_ or an equivalent has to wait for the _boot_
> device (to load the kernel from). The _kernel_ has to wait for the
> device carrying the _initial root filesystem_.
> 
> If the final working root filesystem resides on a device or network
> resource which is more or less slow to be discovered, a minimal initial
> root filesystem is put onto a RAM disk which is loaded together with the
> kernel (a.k.a. an initrd).

Yes, this is exactly right.

    Luben