[syslinux] Adding memdisk or similar when booting linux

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Mar 14 10:20:10 PDT 2008


Kjetil.Mikkelborg at kongsberg.com wrote:
> 
> Is there anyway i can keep redhats initramfs image, and load a second one?
> 
> If not, I really would need to ensure that the initramfs could hold both redhats data, and my driverdisk data. But still this is much cleaner than jumping from memdisk to syslinux and so on. How does actually initramfs handle this? can it be dynamicly enlarged? with this scenario, the initramfs could with no problem be twice and tripple the original size.
> 
> And if i really can have a second initramfs, how do i access it?
> 

If you load multiple initramfs images, then they overlay; the resulting 
filesystem contains both files.

	-hpa




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