Wakko Warner wrote:
> 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, I noticed that the ramdisk driver has to be compiled in (I
didn't try w/o initrd support). Atleast I dropped ext2 from my compiled in
list (NO filesystems in my kernel!)
Now it would be nice if I could remove rd from the compiled in list as well
(even thought it would only save a few K)
> Unfortunately for me, it doesn't work. I'm still trying to figure out how
> it works.
As I stated earlier it now works. error with my archive.
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