> 
> On Fridayen den 9 November 2001 16.05, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Fast? When executing at bootup, you mean? I didn't notice that.
> Maybe
> > > > because of dietlibc?...
> > >
> > > At boot? Does it run at boot I dare to ask...
> >
> > Well it's "executed" at boot when it loads modules, mounts the
rootfs,
> > etc.
> 
> Executed?, it's not that it's extracted into ram by another software,
but
> really _executed_ by its own?
> 

Of course not. RAM disk image created by mkinitrd is uncompressed and
then mounted. It is never executed directly (and of course no mkinitrd
ever runs at boot time).

> This is a part I would really like to learn more about, but I don't
know
> where to look...
> 

Have you already tried /usr/src/linux? Sorry, could not resist :-)

-andrej

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