Initrd and compressed ram disks

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Subject: Initrd and compressed ram disks
From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 11:18 PST
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Reply-to: Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>

I'm confused about initrd - wasn't it supposed to support compressed
ram disks as well as uncompressed ones? My 2.0.25 kernel won't mount
a compressed ram disk as the root using either LILO 18 or SysLinux 1.30 .

	Thanks

	Bruce
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