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Re: initrd.gz generate



On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:38:37PM +0200, Anthony wrote:
> > I try to understand how does the boot process is executed...
> >
> > I suppose a special initrd.gz is created to execute the
> > debian-installer stuff,
>
> Correct.
>
> > But when and how does the initrd.gz is created.?
> > (debian-cd scripts? debian-installer?)
>
> It's created by the build process of the debian-installer source
> package. This is a normal (well, normalish) Debian source package, so
> you can look up elsewhere how those get built.

See also the documentation available at:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/

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