(now CCing the list, too)
Tom Horsley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd
> image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file
> is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope
> will reduce future confusion for others.
Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better explanation:
Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[email protected]>
--- 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt.ori 2006-07-27 18:49:25.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt 2006-07-27 18:58:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ initrd is mainly designed to allow syste
where the kernel comes up with a minimum set of compiled-in drivers, and
where additional modules are loaded from initrd.
+initrd has recently been obsoleted by initramfs, which is described in
+Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.
+
This document gives a brief overview of the use of initrd. A more detailed
discussion of the boot process can be found in [1].
--
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
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