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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-06 17:42:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-08-06 17:42:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 00dd7b7d26a3bf3780cfcebfdde2b86126b3a082 (patch) | |
| tree | 5129fd1abc99d0c58a520938f28bf330ae94ef30 /Documentation/initrd.txt | |
| parent | 58b3ac07fed31ffc1349380b78305af6522fe1f4 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e1e63259b1e01f047796e7985d960ca040993e6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-00dd7b7d26a3bf3780cfcebfdde2b86126b3a082.tar.xz | |
Merge ../linux-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c
Stylistic differences in two separate fixes for buffer->request_buffer
problem.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/initrd.txt b/Documentation/initrd.txt index b1b6440..15f1b35 100644 --- a/Documentation/initrd.txt +++ b/Documentation/initrd.txt @@ -72,6 +72,22 @@ initrd adds the following new options: initrd is mounted as root, and the normal boot procedure is followed, with the RAM disk still mounted as root. +Compressed cpio images +---------------------- + +Recent kernels have support for populating a ramdisk from a compressed cpio +archive, on such systems, the creation of a ramdisk image doesn't need to +involve special block devices or loopbacks, you merely create a directory on +disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an +example): + +find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img + +Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple: + +mkdir /tmp/imagefile +cd /tmp/imagefile +gzip -cd /boot/imagefile.img | cpio -imd --quiet Installation ------------ |