Hi Mulyadi, On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi... > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Now to my first question: >> The kernel is compiled WITHOUT any fs driver... So how the f@#ck did >> he mounted initramfs? How are the files formatted? > > I think it's using any kind of RAM based fs, like ramfs or > tmpfs....like the name says init-ram-fs Please note that the image you give qemu (or bootloader) to use as initrd is *not* formatted using any mkfs. It's just created with: $ find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initramfs.cpio And the compiled kernel has no support for *any* filesystem. So, the question is: how are those files formatted? (Guess the answer is: look at the code) Thanks! Ezequiel. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
