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connexion2000

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Registered: 2006-10-15

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initial and fallback ramdisk

hi!
What is the difference between fallback and initial ramdisk created by mkinitcpio?

stavrosg

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From: Rhodes, Greece

Registered: 2005-05-01

Posts: 330

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Re: initial and fallback ramdisk

You can customize (read: trim down) the initial ramdisk through /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to leave out modules or entire subsystems you don't need, since this is needed only to reach your actual root filesystem.

The fallback is there to ensure that you'll be able to boot if your system becomes unbootable with the customized one.