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Message-Id: <E1G69M4-0001Um-Jg@be1.lrz>
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
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