Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 22:23:39 -0400 | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | [PATCH] Initrd Archive for 2.2.8 |
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ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/initrd-arch/
initrd-archive is:
Initial RAM disk archive (untar) support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD_ARCHIVE This allows you to use a tar.gz archive instead of those nasty raw images. To use this feature first create a blank raw image of the correct size and fs that you want. Compress it with gzip then pad it up to an even kB. Next combine the rawfs.gz file with your root tar.gz. Spec this resulting file as the initrd image the boot loader should load. Now spec the offset in kB from the first to the second file with the kernel option initrd_archive=[int]. Confused? Good! Just use auto fs below unless you need something besides a minix filesystem for the initrd.
Initial RAM disk auto fs (minix) support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD_ARCHIVE_AUTOFS_MINIX Specing initrd_archive=minix will have the kernel dynamically create a minix filesystem on /dev/ram0 at boot time. No raw image is needed at all. Spec a normal tar.gz file for the boot loader to load as the initrd root archive.
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