There are three phases during the kernel boot process, the second phase use initrd/initramfs as temporally root file system, traditionally the initrd used, initrd is a ram disk(usually it is a ext2 file system ), and initramfs is new second boot phase, it is a ramfs. Please check Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt for detail.
sinozhou On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Andy Goldschmidt < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > What is the difference between mkinitrd and mkinitramfs ? > > >From what I have read, mkinitramfs seems to be the newer better one... > but I can't find out why its better... > > Can anyone provide more info on both please... > > Regards > Andy > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean. > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss >
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