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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
