<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Ramdisk usage</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Resources and pointers" HREF="a1376.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="LILO -- the Linux loader" HREF="x1429.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="The Linux boot process" HREF="x1440.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1429.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >A. Resources and pointers</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x1440.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN1434" >A.4. Ramdisk usage</A ></H1 ><P >An excellent description of the how the ramdisk code works may be found with the documentation supplied with the Linux kernel. See <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt</TT >. It is written by Paul Gortmaker and includes a section on creating a compressed ramdisk.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1429.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x1440.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >LILO -- the Linux loader</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="a1376.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >The Linux boot process</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >