OK, thanks.
Pat
P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-|
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about
> 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
> > OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf
> > file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with
> > grub ???
>
> Each distro has their own, although I think they were mostly spawned
> from mkinitrd from RedHat. I believe genkernel now creates
> initramfs (as opposed to initrd) files, and may have support for
> compiling the initramfs into the kernel.
>
> grub/lilo/xen loads an initramfs exactly the same as an initrd --
> the kernel determines how to use the uncompressed data by looking
> for a cpio header.
>
> > Yes, start with kernel documentation ... but something quicker ??? :-)
>
> Not that I've found.
>
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