Initramfs – boot your Linux WELL

Limor Pipman December 29th, 2008

This lecture, by Zaar Hai from Codefidence Ltd., deals with Initramfs. Among the topics we will deal with are:

  • What happens between grub and init?
  • pre-initrd era, initrd era, new, initramfs, era.
  • Booting from various disks
  • Finding your boot fs by UUID
  • Booting from LVM, software RAID, dmraid
  • Booting from CD – how do you do it?
  • Introduction to udev. Rules writing

You can download the original slides or use Scribd:

Initramfs – boot your Linux WELL

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