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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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