Re: How does boot loader pass initrd address / size to kernel?

To:	"Thiemo Seufer" <ths@networkno.de>
Subject:	Re: How does boot loader pass initrd address / size to kernel?
From:	"Rajat Jain" <rajat.noida.india@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:38:43 +0530
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On 3/15/07, Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> wrote:

Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Rajat Jain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running an ancient Linux kernel 2.4.20 (please don't ask me why
> > :-( ) on a MIPS 4KEC. I am experimenting with initrd and my initrd
> > fails to mount. My bootloader (U-BOOT) coorectly loads the initrd into
> > RAM as I can see.
> >
> > I am wondering how does the kernel get to know the address at which
> > the initrd is loaded by boot loader? How does the boot loader
> > communicate this to the kernel?
> >
> > I can see that when emebedding root filesystem into kernel image, the
> > symbols __rd_start and __rd_end are defined by the linker script and
> > hence the kernel gets to know. However, how does this happen when
> > bootloader loads the ramdisk and needs to tell the kernel?
>
> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Kernel_Command_Line_Arguments mentions
> rd_start and rd_size which are used for this purpose.


Ah thanks a lot ... this is what I was looking for.

Rajat

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