On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:27:05PM +1100, Colin Humphreys wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:56:48PM +1100, Stalker, Doug wrote: > > I still have one question: if the initial RamDisk image is on a SCSI disk, > > and if the SCSI drivers are in the initial ramdisk, how does it get loaded > > in the first place? I assume it's some sort of lilo trick, since adding > > initrd=/foo.img to the boot parameters doesn't work but adding > > initrd=/foo.img to lilo.conf and running lilo does. Does lilo copy the > > initial ramdisk to the bootsector or some such? >
After my crap explanation, I found a better one: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
