Hi David, > (2) with a 2.6 you can embed your whole file system into the > kernel and boot and go just from the kernel -- no file system at all -- > that way you don't have to pivot-root from the initrd -- just stay there. > That's not correct. Indeed you can make a choice to include the initramfs (not initrd) into the kernel, but it has no technical advantage besides having only a kernel instead of a kernel and an initramfs.cpio. The reason to have both options has to do with GPL and including non-GPLed modules. Besides it's easier to have a seperate kernel and initramfs if you want to support multiple boot devices and also keep size down. In both cases you have to do a switch_root (not pivot_root which was the case with kernel 2.4) to free the initramfs and start init.
So you always have a file system, ramfs, even if you embed the whole system in the kernel and you have to do a switch_root to give init the control and do some other housekeeping. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
