Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:56:20 +0100 | From | <> | Subject | Re: 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |