From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, guilhermedestefani@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Documentation/initrd.txt update
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:24:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A97CFF.9040609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151945437.5699.13.camel@homemfera.perkons.net>
Guilherme Destefani wrote:
> The cpio initrd isn't documented in
> linux-2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt.
> (but it is in
> linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt)
> initrd.txt shouldn't be updated?
>
> Two possible updates follow, use patch -p1 inside the kernel tree.
... and both are wrong.
initramfs != initrd, plus you specified -c to cpio, which is wrong (-H
newc is correct).
You have to account for the differences between initramfs and initrd,
e.g. no pivot_root in initramfs.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-03 20:24 UTC|newest]
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2006-07-03 16:50 Documentation/initrd.txt update Guilherme Destefani
2006-07-03 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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