Luciano Rocha wrote:
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 09:21:05PM +0530, Shourya Sarcar wrote:
I had a few related questions on initramfs/initrd. If someone could provide
me some help and/or point to places where I can go and look, that would be
very nice.
Is there a difference between initramfs and initrd ? If not, what's the
difference between doing a "mkinitrd" and "update-initramfs -cv"
Initrd is usually an image of a filesystem (cramfs, ext2fs, etc.).
Initramfs is a series of cpio archives (compressed or not).
mkinitrd on current RedHat, Fedora, etc., really create initramfs
archives, not the old, filesystem image version.
pardon me for freeloading on this thread, but it gets close to a notion
I had a while back.
Enhance kconfig system to accept CONFIG_FOO='e' as a near synonym for ='m'
'e' would carry current meaning, but additionally would indicate that
the module
(and its dependencies) be added into the initrd file.
It doesnt really add any fundamentally new capabilities, but it would
simplify the
creation of customized initrds.
Anyone here think this would be in bad taste ? or perhaps a good idea ?
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