initramfs vs initrd

[Sébastien Chrétien]

When the kernel is booting, is it possible to check if the initrd is good ?

2008/8/25, Sébastien Chrétien <sebastien.chretien.enseirb at gmail.com>:
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> ok thank you
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> 2008/8/25, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
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>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:57:14PM +0200,
>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Chr=E9tien_ wrote:
>> >Hello,
>> >
>> >What is the difference between initramfs and initrd ?
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>> You could poke around in the Documentation directory of the kernel.  That
>> should answer your question.
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>> Briefly, initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive.  initrd is typically a
>> compressed ext2 filesystem and requires a ramdisk to be unpacked to.
>>
>> josh
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