Hi, >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.
Thanks for clarification. Still I have some couple of question. 1) So initrd is first file which executes first in the boot process (if present) . Am I correct? 2) There are so many variances in the kernel image file (vmlinuz, bzImage, zImage, etc). What is the difference? How do we build each? I may be stupid, But just want to clarify initrd is the ramdisk correct? Thanks. Suresh
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