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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:08:39 +0200 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...tempel.de> To: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@...r.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt (now CCing the list, too) Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@...r.com> wrote: > I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd > image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file > is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope > will reduce future confusion for others. Your documentation is technically wrong, and there is a better explanation: Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de> --- 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt.ori 2006-07-27 18:49:25.000000000 +0200 +++ 2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt 2006-07-27 18:58:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ initrd is mainly designed to allow syste where the kernel comes up with a minimum set of compiled-in drivers, and where additional modules are loaded from initrd. +initrd has recently been obsoleted by initramfs, which is described in +Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt. + This document gives a brief overview of the use of initrd. A more detailed discussion of the boot process can be found in [1]. -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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