Re: What is difference between initrd and regular RAM disk?

Thank you, Joel, I will read them and if any question, I will post again. Thanks, Best Regards, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Joel Fernandes agnel.j...@gmail.comwrote: inird: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html

What is difference between initrd and regular RAM disk?

Hi, initrd is also RAM disk, then what is major difference between initrd and regular RAM disk? Best Regards, Daniel (Youngwhan) Song

Re: What is difference between initrd and regular RAM disk?

inird: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd ramdisk: http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html In recent times, ramdisk in the context of an initrd is really a misnomer and is more accurately an initramfs - cpio archive that