Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2005 14:45:42 -0400 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: initramfs |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I didn't know you could use CPIO archives as initrd images. I have used > gzip'd ext2 and cramfs (on Debian kernels only so far). Actually I > didn't know cpio was even considered a filesystem (and hence would be > difficult to mount at all).
Apparently, initrd is just a name and a buffer. Whatever it does with it is a different story. If the buffer looks like a cpio archive, it mounts tmpfs as / and populates it from the archive. No ramdisk driver, no filesystem driver required.
Unfortunately for me, it doesn't work. I'm still trying to figure out how it works.
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