Re: Initrd unzipped ?

[Dave Cinege]

OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> 
> From: Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
> Subject: Initrd unzipped ?
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:36:04 +0200
> 
> > It seems that when one uses an initrd with Linux, the initrd is unzipped.
> > If I'm right, since Linux is able to unzip the initrd too, and since it
> > first moves the initrd to a ramdisk, this is not practical (one waste
> > memory).
> 
> I'm not sure. The code is derived from Erich's version of GRUB "as
> is", so there might be a reason for that (e.g. ancient Linux didn't
> support gzip-loading? Erich?)
> 
> Anyway, at least 2.0.38 supports gzip-loading, so I think it would be
> better to disable the automatic decompression behavior in GRUB. If
> nobody objects to that, I'll do that.

Yes please, I was just going to ask for it. Linux expects the initrd to
be untouched when it accesses it.