Re: initramfs

[Wakko Warner]

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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