From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751800AbWG0RPs (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:15:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751790AbWG0RPr (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:15:47 -0400 Received: from mail.ccur.com ([66.10.65.12]:24796 "EHLO mail.ccur.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751800AbWG0RPr (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:15:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt From: Tom Horsley To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <6DfYt-7zU-49@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:15:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1154020546.5166.35.camel@tweety> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 19:08 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd > > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file > > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope > > will reduce future confusion for others. > > Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better > explanation: I find it easy to believe my document is wrong, but looking at the Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt file would never have led me to believe that the initrd.img file was related in any way. The ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt file describes the the archive as being built into the kernel, so it needs updating too I guess (and fedora should change the name of the initrd files to be initramfs files so I'll look for documentation in the right place :-).