[syslinux] Adding memdisk or similar when booting linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kjetil.Mikkelborg at kongsberg.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your reply, but stil  no luck.
> changed the last arg to -1, but still no sign of /dd.img in initrd after booting.
> So, am i looking at the wrong end here? is an initrd image handled the same way as
> a cpio archive regarding initramfs? Since i suspect redhat is stil using initrd image
> (with ext2 filesystems).
> 

No, you can't add files to an initrd filesystem.

Don't know about RHEL, but Fedora has been initramfs for soem time.

> Ive also just for testing tried to change to using initramfs_load_file instead of the code above,
> but still no luck with that either.
> 
> Any more hints to were to look?

Well, finding out what your initrd is would be a first step.

	-hpa