Lilo-multiboot and initramfs
Hi,
recently I installed a Linux distro (Pardus) which boots using initramfs. I am completely novice here. In the former configuration I used lilo to boot OpenBSD, Debian and W2k (it is easy for me to configure lilo to boot OpenBSD). But initramfs is a something completely new for me. As I understand it is a virtual file system with a standard directory tree and the information stored on that system is used (to boot the kernel?) to mount the true (physical) root device. The first question is how to properly describe a system (kernel image) booted with initramfs in the lilo.conf. Any remarks are welcomed. |
Is this what you're looking for? I'm a little confused by your post.
http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar.../README.initrd |
This is how you add an initram to lilo.conf. (Taken from mine)
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image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-2.6.37.6 |
The procedure in the link I provided for building an initrd works like a charm. It is written by the man himself. :)
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Seems initramfs and initrd are different flavours of the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd I tried initrd but it doesn't work with initramfs. |
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But probably mistake is mine. After an install I changed /etc/fstab. In the original fstab the root device was described by UUID. I prefer to use /dev/sd in the fstab. Now it seems for me that afterthat I should rebuild initramfs. But it desn't seems to be such easy as in the case of initrd. It would much simpler to use UUID in the lilo.conf.
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