Re: How does boot loader tell the kernel, the location of initrd?

2007-03-15 Thread Rajendra
Every bootloader has different mechanism for loading the kernel image. I am talking of Grub boot loader here. Grub uses something called a multiboot specification. The specification documents the mechanism for passing data to and from the kernel image. Search for multiboot specification and i

How does boot loader tell the kernel, the location of initrd?

2007-03-14 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I am experimenting with initrd and my initrd fails to mount. My bootloader (U-BOOT) coorectly loads the initrd into RAM as I can see. I am wondering how does the kernel get to know the address at which the initrd is loaded by boot loader? How does the boot loader communicate this to the