From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751774AbWG0RJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:09:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751783AbWG0RJ2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:09:28 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:17857 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751774AbWG0RJ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:09:27 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt To: Tom Horsley , Linux Kernel Mailing List Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:08:39 +0200 References: <6DfYt-7zU-49@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (now CCing the list, too) Tom Horsley wrote: > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope > will reduce future confusion for others. Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better explanation: Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> --- 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt.ori 2006-07-27 18:49:25.000000000 +0200 +++ 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt     2006-07-27 18:58:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ initrd is mainly designed to allow syste  where the kernel comes up with a minimum set of compiled-in drivers, and  where additional modules are loaded from initrd. +initrd has recently been obsoleted by initramfs, which is described in +Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt. +  This document gives a brief overview of the use of initrd. A more detailed  discussion of the boot process can be found in [1]. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html