Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:37 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> Not quite. It is actually inside the kernel binary. You are thinking of >> an initrd. >> >> Look at these files: >> >> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt. >> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/early-userspace/README >> > > The initramfs cpio archive does not HAVE to be inside the kernel > binary. It may be assembled as a separate file (perhaps in /boot), and > passed to the kernel by the bootloader, just as Rich describes. > > See the section "External initramfs images" in ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.
There's a great doc at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs HTH, igli. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
