On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 13:36 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 01:44 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 May 2005 01:13, Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > > initrd. Sure an initrd can support ext2 with labels, but that's not
> > > being done at the moment and such a significant change is unlikely to be
> > > made to the installer in a hurry.
> >
> > Anaconda has been using initramfs for boot media since November. Are
> > you sure you mean initrd?
>
> That was my understanding of it, I thought that initrd=whatever for the boot
> loaded made it use initrd. Could you please give me a URL for the correct
> information.
I don't have a url, but if you look at linux/init/initramfs.c, it
appears to just check the magic bytes for the filesystem in whatever you
pass it; if it's a cramfs image, it uses initramfs.
Correction: cramfs has nothing to do with an initramfs. An initramfs is
just a gzipped cpio archive that gets exploded out onto the default
kernel rootfs.
Jeremy