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Subject: Re: [alpine-user] Multiple initramfs appears not to work
From: Andrew Stuart <andrew.stuart@supercoders.com.au>
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 07:26:29 +1100
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To: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>



> "The kernel will decompress the stream of compressed cpio archives =
passed to it by the 'append' bootloader option to the root of 'rootfs', =
a tmpfs automatically mounted at '/' by the kernel at boot."
>=20
> As far as I can tell, Alpine appears to ignore all except the first =
initramfs.

>>>>That is because the bootloader and kernel do not really work this =
way.

Perhaps you can help me understand=E2=80=A6..  what code exactly is it =
that Alpine would require/does not have to support this functionality =
(that other distros such as Ubuntu & Tiny Core have)?  I=E2=80=99ve read =
quite a bit of stuff but can=E2=80=99t quite put the finger on how =
Alpine is different in this regard to for example Ubuntu and Tiny Core =
Linux and I presume other Linux distros? I had thought that using =
syslinux to boot would be sufficient.

>>>>It is not really possible, sorry.
OK I can stop trying to find the incantation - that will save me alot of =
time anyway :-)

thanks

Andrew



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