[klibc] Query on Initramfs' and Initrd's coexistence

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Apr 7 11:12:42 PDT 2005


Mathieu Segaud wrote:
> 
> yep but userland utilities to support modules loading changed between
> 2.4 and 2.6 series. With 2.4 and earlier series, you need modutils.
> with 2.6 kernels, you need module-init-tools.
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/module-init-tools
> 

Not to mention redhat initrd's are mainly used to load modules, which 
are embedded in the initrd...

For playing with 2.6 kernels go to FC3/RHEL4 which is 2.6- and, in fact, 
initramfs-based...

	-hpa



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