Question on initrd and initramfs

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 20:58:58 EDT 2012


Hi...

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now to my first question:
> The kernel is compiled WITHOUT any fs driver... So how the f@#ck did
> he mounted initramfs? How are the files formatted?

I think it's using any kind of RAM based fs, like ramfs or
tmpfs....like the name says init-ram-fs
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Mulyadi Santosa
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