Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:24:31 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Documentation/initrd.txt update |
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Guilherme Destefani wrote: > The cpio initrd isn't documented in > linux-2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt. > (but it is in > linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt) > initrd.txt shouldn't be updated? > > Two possible updates follow, use patch -p1 inside the kernel tree.
... and both are wrong.
initramfs != initrd, plus you specified -c to cpio, which is wrong (-H newc is correct).
You have to account for the differences between initramfs and initrd, e.g. no pivot_root in initramfs.
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