[Clfs-support] initrd

[Jim Gifford]

mike wrote:
> hi all,
>
> is there a actual mkinitrd script for clfs? i found only an old script
> via google from jim gifford on
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/OLD/initrd.txt
>
> i use my clfs always without initrd, but now i want learn howto use this
> and would build a kernel with only the needed for initrd. all the rest
> should be in the ramdisk-file
>
> thank you
>
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Mike initrd is obsolete.

I was the author of that hint,  the replacement is initramfs. Here's a 
good place to start.

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt