Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:41:41 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Initramfs |
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Werner Almesberger wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Support replacing "initrd=" with "initramfs=", so that bootloaders can >>pass a cpio image into the standard initrd memory space. > > > This sounds like a very good idea, yes. > > Or, maybe even make it such that initramfs acts like a file system, > that will just de-cpio the content of a block device to a ramfs.
initramfs _must_ act like a file system ;-)
Basically, instead of rd+ext2, you have rootfs.
Jeff
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