Hi,
--- On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Suresh Kumar Subramanian
<sureshkumar.s@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 2)) building the RootFS & disk controller for that disk in to the kernel.
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Can you re-phrase this statement? Disk controller is hardware. An
initrd is also a root filesystem image.
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| I assume that, ramdisk image is the separate image for only
filesystem (initrd) and
| the second options is no initrd image file, kernel file(vmlinux)
includes the filesystem also.
| Is that correct?
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The term you are looking for is called a 'bootpImage' that has a disk
image and the kernel in a single image. Let us first be clear on some
terminology.
The initrd image usually contains some drivers that are not built-in
the kernel, and required to access hardware when the kernel boots.
But, one can also use the initrd image as a filesystem image (root
filesystem directories from busybox, for example) that can be booted
with the kernel to give the end user a shell prompt to work with --
like the use of a LiveCD/DVD running entirely on RAM that has both
kernel and initrd filesystem image.
SK
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