[Lguest] booting a kernel with initramfs

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 02:37:18 EST 2008


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> wrote:

> I can't remember ever having used one of those. I'm only familiar with
> External initramfs images (for details see
> Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt too). These are
> often also refered to as "initrd" (which I find confusing).

I've used them and I like them. no initrd file.

if init.sh contains only "hello" your kernel is going to have a pretty
short lifetime, possibly. but you got no output at all?

it's a little hard to tell what happened with all the output pruned.

ron



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