Re: Question regarding kernel policy: Why ext2 as module?
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 04:53, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:03:40AM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
> >
> > Now my only remaining question is: What kernel versions support this?
> > All 2.6 kernels currently in Debian? What about 2.4 kernels in Debian?
> >
>
> Initramfs is a 2.6 feature. There are patches for 2.4 somewhere too,
> Al Viro was responsable of them, if I'm remembering correctly.
> Google is your friend.
Google has been my friend for a long time ;-), so I asked him (her?)
before posting. Amongst other things I found
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1INo8-3eV-31%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dinitramfs%2Bcpio%26ie%3DUTF-8%26hl%3Den%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch
which seems to indicate that the stock kernel needs a patch to accept
the initrd image as the root filesystem. Given my success with 2.6.6 it
looks like this patch has been applied to the Debian version of kernel
2.6.6.
So, again: Do all versions of the 2.6 kernel in *Debian* work like this?
Have the 2.4 kernels in *Debian* the backport patch applied?
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine
Cheers
Andree
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Andree Leidenfrost
Sydney - Australia
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