Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:46:11 +0100 (MET) | From | Hans Lermen <> | Subject | Re: Kernel hack to load RAM disk + kernel |
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Bob S. Minowicz wrote:
> A friend told me of a hack that was discussed on this list not long ago > that does something like loading a compressed image file that contains both a > kernel image and a ram disk image. I may not even understand this correctly, > but it gives me some half-baked ideas that I'd like to do a little more cooking > on. It might be nice to have the hack so that I can see exactly what it does. > Can someone point me in the right direction?
May be you mean bzImage+initrd. This is gone into the kernel (1.3.73). Have a look at linux/Documentation/initrd.txt and at the announcement:
ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub/linux/loadlin-1.6/ANNOUNCE-LILO+LOADLIN
Hans <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>
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