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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 21:35:28 +0400
From: Alexandr Andreev <andreev@niisi.msk.ru>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine
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David Woodhouse wrote:

>It's not polite to respond to private messages in public fora.
>
>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Alexandr Andreev wrote:
>
>>Bootloader only jumps to the kernel entry point. The initrd image is 
>>compiled inside the kernel.
>>
>
>So it's in a ROM or flash chip? Why copy it into memory then? We have 
>support for ROM and flash chips.
>
No any flash, disk, floppy... only RAM, image is inside kernel.
#ls -s vmlinux
4852 vmlinux
#objdump --headers vmlinux
.data
.text
.bss
.initrd <- Here is the image.
...