Re: [LinuxBIOS] how to use ramdisk as rootfs

[Richard Smith]

> support linux-2.6 kernel.  Can I convert my tar.gz
> file to cpio format as initramfs and make kernel
> uncompress it and mount it as rootfs on ramdisk
> automatically?  I'm not so familiar with either initrd
> or initramfs, where can I find more and clear info
> about these topics?

There is a little bit of info about initramfs in the kernel tree.

/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt