On Mon, Aug 08, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use > initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file > by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel.
The file passed from the bootloader to the kernel, which is later eventually recognized as an initrd, can be everything. But the kernel code to deal with the memory range containing the file is behind CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD. The new config options should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/