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Author Topic: Is using rootfs.gz and modules.gz as initrd equivalent to using core.gz?  (Read 1850 times)

Offline robbie0630

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Are there any differences (major or minor) that one should know about?

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Re: Is using rootfs.gz and modules.gz as initrd equivalent to using core.gz?
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2016, 08:18:07 PM »
After some looking (i.e. running diff on find on the two's directory structures) I noticed that the core.gz had something different from the other two: the folder /lib/modules/4.2.9-tinycore/kernel/drivers/i2c

Offline Misalf

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Re: Is using rootfs.gz and modules.gz as initrd equivalent to using core.gz?
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2016, 11:12:07 PM »
Whats the difference between the two exactly?
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