Path: csiph.com!eeepc.pasdenom.info!news.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!gegeweb.org!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:25:15 -0600 Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:24:53 -0800 From: John Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Subject: Re: Memory address of initramfs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-bS3EEtNkG4SWTZRDj5Av1g7vejwWNTbji596ezO6D8XftU6opHEAwGXk4DBmsTbtuTZ9lEykxA4HSAd!sp0rgEcRVRdH8hp1XUtY2mOASgpMjtksxs1YsEmnbPllyWOU+h41RPKegnJlVgrF X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1568 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.system:547 > Is [there] any way to see/change the memory address where the initramfs is > extracted to and mounted as rootfs? The boot loader (GRUB, LILO, etc.) chooses where to place the initramfs. After that, the kernel moves the initramfs. Look in the early kernel messages (/var/log/messages and/or output from 'dmesg'.) Probably you can control the kernel, but not the boot loader. --