From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932089AbVHHPi2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750942AbVHHPi1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:38:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:59303 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750945AbVHHPi1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:38:27 -0400 Message-ID: <42F77C55.9040501@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:37:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grzegorz Kulewski CC: Sam Ravnborg , klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [klibc] Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup" References: <20050808135936.GA9057@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >> From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use > > initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate > file by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel. > > Am I right? If so, could somebody split initramfs and initrd (not only > at configuration level but also at code level)? Shouldn't they be > separated (and possibly initrd removed after some time)? In the mean > time it should be documented in *config help. > Actually, most of CONFIG_INITRD is about being able to pick up the second load datum, so it makes sense on the code level at least. > Also somebody should add more documentation about initramfs (generating, > writing scripts, producing image, the right method for chroot / > pivot_root / ...). It took me whole week to find it out myself and I > still have some doubths... Yes, that would be good. -hpa