Configuring INITRAMFS Boot - 2022.1 English

PetaLinux Tools Documentation: Reference Guide (UG1144)

Document ID
UG1144
Release Date
2022-04-26
Version
2022.1 English

Initial RAM file system (INITRAMFS) is the successor of INITRD. It is a cpio archive of the initial file system that gets loaded into memory during the PetaLinux startup process. The Linux kernel mounts it as RootFS and starts the initialization process.

This section describes the procedure to configure INITRAMFS boot.