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Hi, > Adds two new sub features to initrd on boot support. > initird_archive provides untar support and allows the root to be in a tar.gz > instead of one of those nasty raw image files. To use this you first make a > raw image file as you normally would have done, (make an fs on it) > but don't put any files in it. Compress it down with gzip. Then pad it with > zero's up to an even KiloByte range. Now take your root.tar.gz file and > cat them together. Spec this file as the initrd file for the boot loader to > load. On the kernel option append line, spec initrd_archive=[int] which is > the number KB of the rawimage file (or more specificly the root.tar.gz files > offset from the beginning of the file) See below for an example if > you can't follow this. I think that the romfs solves the problem in a much better way. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't." | |||||||||
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