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From: Chris Lingard <chris@ukpost.com>
To: Arkadiusz Patyk <areqlkl@areq.eu.org>
Subject: Re: initramfs and kernel  2.6.7
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:15:09 +0100
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On Wednesday 30 June 2004 19:55, Arkadiusz Patyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I 'am trying to launch linux kernel 2.6.7 with initramfs.

> kernel vmlinuz-2.6.7-1
> append initrd=initramfs_data.cpio.gz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc

The append line is unnecessary

First, your script with your initramfs should be called init and
not linuxrc :-(

Assuming that you are creating the cpio with --format=newc,
you should copy your initramfs.cpio.gz to:
linux-2.6.7/usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz

Make the kernel, boot the kernel; and the initramfs will be mounted as
root, and control given to the init script.

Chris Lingard