initramfs vs initrd

Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com
Tue Aug 26 18:56:09 EST 2008


On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Sébastien Chrétien wrote:
> When the kernel is booting, is it possible to check if the initrd is good ?

Sure, the kernel does some basic checking in init/do_mounts_rd.c.

With kind regards,

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