Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Rob Landley <> | | Subject | Re: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel] | | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:02:43 -0600 |
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On Monday 12 December 2005 11:34, Ben Slusky wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:30:30 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > Query: if you tell lilo or grub that it has an initrd but feed it a > > gzipped cpio image, will the kernel figure everything out and initialize > > initramfs from that appropriately? > > Yes, I've been booting my laptop this way (using GRUB) since 2.6.7 or so.
Sigh, gotta update the docs again... :)
Do you need to compile initrd support in for this to work, or just tell grub/lilo to do its' thing? (I can answer this one myself when I get around to setting up another test environment...)
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