On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 16.57, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 16.05, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > Fast? When executing at bootup, you mean? I didn't notice that.
> >
> > Maybe
> >
> > > > > because of dietlibc?...
> > > >
> > > > At boot? Does it run at boot I dare to ask...
> > >
> > > Well it's "executed" at boot when it loads modules, mounts the
>
> rootfs,
>
> > > etc.
> >
> > Executed?, it's not that it's extracted into ram by another software,
>
> but
>
> > really _executed_ by its own?
>
> Of course not. RAM disk image created by mkinitrd is uncompressed and
> then mounted. It is never executed directly (and of course no mkinitrd
> ever runs at boot time).

Thanks, gc explained this too. It's very interesting to learn this kind of 
in-deep stuff, but I can't learn everything at once, only small fragments 
each day.

> > This is a part I would really like to learn more about, but I don't
>
> know
>
> > where to look...
>
> Have you already tried /usr/src/linux? Sorry, could not resist :-)

No problem, sometimes I "speak" before I think..., sometimes it's too 
often..., I wonder if it has to do with age? :)

Thanks guys.

BTW. Andrej, your mail client breaks the lines in mysterious ways...

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