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The new initramfs system

Posted Nov 22, 2006 14:05 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: The new initramfs system by rvfh
Parent article: Embedded Linux: Small Root Filesystems

The kernel path is what's passed to GRUB. Think of the kernel image as an egg with a shrunken initramfs chicken stashed in it by the kbuild system.

Well worth perusing:
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt

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