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Re[4]: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu
Tani Wallach <tani@techunix.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> >
> > So I repeat my question again: where does the file system (its contents, in
> > particular, the SCSI module) on the RAM disk come from?!
> >
>
> Lilo STARTS to boot a kernel (aka _bootstraps_) from any (including SCSI)
> disk BEFORE the kernel itself is in memory. So in the same way LILO can
> access the kernel image from the disk it can access the initial ramdisk
> (such as the "initrd" created by mkinitrd) if the file's location is
> "known" to lilo in advance.
OK, sorry, somehow I missed the initrd option (I was talking about usual RAM
disk). I stand corrected.
Regards,
Evgeny
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