On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:23:39AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > the kernel clearly defines the "retain_initrd" kernel parameter,
> > so i'm just curious as to its purpose.
>
> To preserve initrds. That is, filesystem images passed as an initrd
> that the kernel is supposed to execute *before* mounting the real
> root device.
ah, so "retain_initrd" is only valid with filesystem-format initrds,
not the newer cpio format? that makes sense.
rday
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