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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