Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:58:07 -0400 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:51:09 -0700, Kendall Bennett <kendallb@scitechsoft.com> wrote: > I have not used initramfs at all (I am not sure I know what it is > actually) so I don't know. I know there is quite a long period of time on > most machines from when the kernel starts booting and when the real file > system based init process takes over.
initramfs/initrd comes up very early in the boot process. For example it holds your supplemental device drivers and initial /dev. /dev/console is opened from this /dev so it much be up before the console is. This is much earlier than normal user space starts.
I believe the current Fedora 3 uses udev from initramfs, but I haven't tried it yet.
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