From: <grfgguvf@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Whys and hows of initrds
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8413367b0511061256u565de887jf5819ff9b3b4030c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436E4FDF.7000503@mnsu.edu>
On 11/6/05, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
> boot process to continue. It MAY also mount a network file system and
> boot from that.
But the kernel can do that without an initrd as well.
> >* What are the differences between an initrd and an initramdisk (if
> >any)? And an initramfs?
> >
> There is a nice read post not that long ago comparing some of them, you
> may want to scan lat months archives. It was a documentation patch...
I will look around. Thanks!
> Other OSes just load everything; which isn't very efficient.
FreeBSD (for example) has a bootloader that can load arbitrary modules
in addition to the kernel.
Is there anything preventing that to be done with Linux? Or is it just
not powerful enough?
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2005-11-06 17:24 grfgguvf
[not found] ` <436E4FDF.7000503@mnsu.edu>
2005-11-06 20:56 ` grfgguvf [this message]
2005-11-06 21:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-11-06 23:35 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-06 23:58 ` Neil Brown
2005-11-07 1:23 ` grfgguvf
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2005-11-06 17:50 ` Robert Hancock
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