Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
I wasn't talking about copying. I was talking about deleting. ;) We basically wipe the initramdisk via the init file, getting rid of all the modules, hotplug and so on so that they're not there now that they're no longer needed.
But you copied them from initramfs, and they are still there. If you delete your copies, the originals loaded via the initramfs cpio archive will still be in memory (at least until someone in kernel land figures out how to release them). That was my point, there is no value in copying them to any type of ramdisk, you can just use the ones present in the initramfs "early userspace root".
The 'copies' are the actual programs and modules that are part of the 'real' filesystem contained on the cd. So if you want to plugin something later, the hotplug and modules that are on the cd will be used.
Ahh, that's trickier. What I'm talking about would happen far too early to be able to get anything off of the CD, and what you are talking about happens after init has been started. Definitely two separate phases of system startup.
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