Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Executed?, it's not that it's extracted into ram by another software, but
> really _executed_ by its own?
Linux INITRD scheme:
- kernel checks if there is an initrd
- kernel uncompresses it into memory
- kernel mounts initrd on /
- kernel executes /linuxrc
and waits for this process to terminate
- kernel unmounts /
> This is a part I would really like to learn more about, but I don't know
> where to look...
Very easy, read `linux/Documentation/initrd.txt'.
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
