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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 17:37:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <319b0ac50808250837r73d88349p1ecad4214d5f7ae3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <319b0ac50808250729i2043c4d6h57577e0a2eda7ed8@mail.gmail.com>

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When the kernel is booting, is it possible to check if the initrd is good ?

2008/8/25, Sébastien Chrétien <sebastien.chretien.enseirb@gmail.com>:
>
> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 15:37 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
2008-08-25 15:37     ` Sébastien Chrétien [this message]
2008-08-26  8:56       ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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