Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 1997 01:29:26 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Hans Lermen <> | Subject | Re: initrd and NFS |
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On 20 May 1997, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> I always wondered why the initial disk needs to be a _RAM_ disk?
Well, if the (just booted) kernel has access to _some_ kind of mass storage, then initrd could be changed to use that. But then, you wouldn't need initrd atall to mount a root fs. Initrd was invented for booting kernels that do _not_ have the appropriate driver for accessing the root fs, hence loading it later via insmod.
You should not mix the usage of 'initrd' with that of '/linuxrc', though they currently depend on each other. And yes, in principal '/linuxrc' needs not to reside on a RAM disk _if_ you have some other kind of storage accessable ( you need to change kernel though ).
Hans <lermen@fgan.de>
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