I had a few related questions on initramfs/initrd. If someone could provide me some help and/or point to places where I can go and look, that would be very nice.

Is there a difference between initramfs and initrd ? If not, what's the difference between doing a "mkinitrd" and "update-initramfs -cv"

When the kernel boots up, does it mandatorily require that the initramfs be of the same version ? When I try to bootup on vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc6, and my initrd is initrd.img-2.6.24-rc5, then my boot hangs. I am using Ubuntu 7.10 as my base distro and the hang is at "Waiting for root filesystem".

Regards,
Shourya






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Shourya Sarcar
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