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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with iso9660 as initrd
Date: 7 Feb 2002 00:32:45 -0800
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Followup to:  <m3n0yl90xb.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>
By author:    Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>
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> > 
> > Also, you don't have CONFIG_ZISOFS set...
> 
> Sorry for not being precise enough. It is not a zisofs, just compressed
> with gzip as usual for an initrd image.
> 

Still unusual, though.  Why iso9660?  It's not particularly well
suited for an initrd, especially because of all the redundant data
structures and extra blocking.

	-hpa
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