Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:54:46 -0500, Tom Austin wrote:
> 
>> You can say that again - I'm working on some embedded junk and the
>> amount of stuff that's there is incredible.
>>
>> After fiddling around a bit I found initrd - something that a lot of
>> linux systems use.  Pretty cool, especially if you are trying to set up
>> an embedded system.
> 
> Yeah, it's quite handy.  I always thought it was kinda ironic, though, 
> that you could load initrd in order to load a required disk driver.  
> Kinda like on NetWare being able to start the system up but then needing 
> to load a disk driver to read the disk once the NW kernel is up and 
> running (but not exactly the same).
> 
> Jim


It came in handy when I was still trying to figure out how to make it 
boot.  I could boot into a full environment without having to worry 
about how to access the CF card and mount it.  I could actually get it 
up and running, then play with things until I figured it out.

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