Hi, --- On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Suresh Kumar Subramanian <[email protected]> wrote: | 2)) building the RootFS & disk controller for that disk in to the kernel. \--
Can you re-phrase this statement? Disk controller is hardware. An initrd is also a root filesystem image. --- | I assume that, ramdisk image is the separate image for only filesystem (initrd) and | the second options is no initrd image file, kernel file(vmlinux) includes the filesystem also. | Is that correct? \-- The term you are looking for is called a 'bootpImage' that has a disk image and the kernel in a single image. Let us first be clear on some terminology. The initrd image usually contains some drivers that are not built-in the kernel, and required to access hardware when the kernel boots. But, one can also use the initrd image as a filesystem image (root filesystem directories from busybox, for example) that can be booted with the kernel to give the end user a shell prompt to work with -- like the use of a LiveCD/DVD running entirely on RAM that has both kernel and initrd filesystem image. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
