From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
To: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:45:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050525184542.GB1098@animx.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050525182613.GI23621@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I didn't know you could use CPIO archives as initrd images. I have used
> gzip'd ext2 and cramfs (on Debian kernels only so far). Actually I
> didn't know cpio was even considered a filesystem (and hence would be
> difficult to mount at all).
Apparently, initrd is just a name and a buffer. Whatever it does with it is
a different story. If the buffer looks like a cpio archive, it mounts tmpfs
as / and populates it from the archive. No ramdisk driver, no filesystem
driver required.
Unfortunately for me, it doesn't work. I'm still trying to figure out how
it works.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-25 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-25 17:41 initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:26 ` initramfs Lennart Sorensen
2005-05-25 18:45 ` Wakko Warner [this message]
2005-05-25 19:54 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
2005-05-25 18:54 ` initramfs Wakko Warner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-13 10:06 initramfs Jacek Jabłoński
2003-08-21 4:44 Initramfs Garrett Kajmowicz
2003-08-21 6:30 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 14:19 ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 18:28 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 19:03 ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 19:57 ` Initramfs Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-21 20:22 ` Initramfs Willy Tarreau
2003-08-21 20:56 ` Initramfs viro
2003-08-21 22:34 ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
2003-08-21 22:31 ` Initramfs Werner Almesberger
2003-08-21 22:41 ` Initramfs Jeff Garzik
2003-08-21 23:15 ` Initramfs Werner Almesberger
2003-08-28 20:07 ` Initramfs H. Peter Anvin
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