Re: What happens to initramfs after boot?

2008-12-18 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Thanks! :) But just to clarify, initrd is not initramfs. For what I have read, they are pretty similar, but also have fundamental differences. I ditched initrd because initramfs is here to replace it, so I haven't looked at it carefully. But again, for what I have read, and being unfamiliar wi

Re: What happens to initramfs after boot?

2008-12-18 Thread Joe
If I remember correctly, the initrd ramdisk is freed back once you switch over to the real root filesystem. I don't remember if you have to do anything special other than switching to the real root. This page has some more info. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html kit

What happens to initramfs after boot?

2008-12-18 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
OK, I did it... I compiled an all-modules kernel and I am using udev inside my initramfs init to find my root partition and boot the system. It works cool... :) It wasn't easy, and after lots of tries with klibc-1.5, I gave it up and went to a straight glibc (2.8-20080929). Also, sorting out