[Lguest] booting a kernel with initramfs

Tiago Maluta maluta_tiago at yahoo.com.br
Fri Oct 17 03:13:58 EST 2008


--- Em qui, 16/10/08, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
> > 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.
> 

#lguest 64 vmlinux > boot.txt
(the output is attached)

The reason of init.sh contains only a 'echo' command is only for didactically purpose.

-
tiago



      
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