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SubjectRe: Whys and hows of initrds
On 11/6/05, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote:
> boot process to continue. It MAY also mount a network file system and
> boot from that.

But the kernel can do that without an initrd as well.

> >* What are the differences between an initrd and an initramdisk (if
> >any)? And an initramfs?
> >
> There is a nice read post not that long ago comparing some of them, you
> may want to scan lat months archives. It was a documentation patch...

I will look around. Thanks!

> Other OSes just load everything; which isn't very efficient.

FreeBSD (for example) has a bootloader that can load arbitrary modules
in addition to the kernel.
Is there anything preventing that to be done with Linux? Or is it just
not powerful enough?
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