Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932073AbVLLRfF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:35:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932078AbVLLRfF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:35:05 -0500 Received: from lizards-lair.paranoiacs.org ([216.158.28.252]:16345 "EHLO lizards-lair.paranoiacs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932073AbVLLRfD (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:35:03 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:34:56 -0500 From: Ben Slusky To: Rob Landley Cc: Pavel Machek , Bill Davidsen , Mark Lord , Adrian Bunk , David Ranson , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Andree Subject: Re: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel] Message-ID: <20051212173456.GB8209@paranoiacs.org> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Landley , Pavel Machek , Bill Davidsen , Mark Lord , Adrian Bunk , David Ranson , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Andree References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <200512071214.26574.rob@landley.net> <20051210083503.GA2833@ucw.cz> <200512102330.31572.rob@landley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512102330.31572.rob@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 806 Lines: 17 On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:30:30 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > Query: if you tell lilo or grub that it has an initrd but feed it a gzipped > cpio image, will the kernel figure everything out and initialize initramfs > from that appropriately? Yes, I've been booting my laptop this way (using GRUB) since 2.6.7 or so. -- Ben Slusky | It was only after their population sluskyb@paranoiacs.org | of 50 mysteriously shrank to eight sluskyb@stwing.org | that the other seven dwarfs began PGP keyID ADA44B3B | to suspect Hungry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/