> > 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