On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > > 'Re: > > > > [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > > First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs and initramfs.Not quite > the same thing...
Yeah, I hoped I cleared that up with my first reply. > But the thread has become about initramfs so we'll stick with that I think this is more what the OP was concerned about. > And the OP should keep in mind that the initrd format was dumped many > many kernel versions ago and these days we use initramfs, I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports* initrd format, even if initramfs is preferred now. For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working rather than an initramfs -- the whole chroot/exec vs. pivot_root vs. switch_root step always failed for me when using an initramfs (and the very same shell script worked as an initrd). Also, a script-made initrd is still just a compressed filesystem, easy to deal with, but a script-made initramfs (particularly one made by genkernel) is not just a cpio archive, it's a series of them separated by some !!!!KERNEL_MAGIC!!!! strings in the middle of binary data -- nearly impossible to work with using standard tools. At least, that's been my experience, others may have found the process easier. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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