From: "Sébastien Chrétien" <sebastien.chretien.enseirb@gmail.com>
To: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: initramfs vs initrd
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <319b0ac50808250729i2043c4d6h57577e0a2eda7ed8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825131018.GA4199@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org>
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ok thank you
2008/8/25, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:57:14PM +0200,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Chr=E9tien_ wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >What is the difference between initramfs and initrd ?
>
>
> You could poke around in the Documentation directory of the kernel. That
> should answer your question.
>
> Briefly, initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. initrd is typically a
> compressed ext2 filesystem and requires a ramdisk to be unpacked to.
>
> josh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-25 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 12:57 initramfs vs initrd Sébastien Chrétien
2008-08-25 13:10 ` Josh Boyer
2008-08-25 14:29 ` Sébastien Chrétien [this message]
2008-08-25 15:37 ` Sébastien Chrétien
2008-08-26 8:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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