In Linux systems, initrd (initial ramdisk) is a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory, to be used as part of the Linux startup process...

or repeatedly read from, a slower device Initial ramdisk List of RAM drive software Kind, Tobias. "RAMDISK Benchmarks" (PDF). University of California...

minimal grub.cfg might contain only the following two commands (cf. initial ramdisk): linux (hd0,1)/kernel/vmlinuz-3.20.1-4 ro # use the file name "vmlinuz-…"...

Rendering Manager (DRM) and the KMS driver. Plymouth is bundled with an initial ramdisk which allows it to run before the file system is mounted. Some sources...

switched to zstd as the default compression algorithm for mkinitcpio initial ramdisk generator. A full implementation of the algorithm with an option to...

filesystem in order for the kernel to use it as a root filesystem or initial ramdisk; U-Boot simply provides an appropriate parameter to the kernel, and/or...

AMD for Radeon RAMDisk". Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014. AMD Radeon RAMDisk "AMD Radeon RAMDisk 6GB- SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD...

com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng Written in C, Bash, Rust Operating system Linux Platform Linux kernel Type Initial_ramdisk License GPLv2+, LGPLv2+ Website dracut-ng.github.io...

are another way to avoid needing to use a (slow) hard disk initrd ("initial ramdisk"), a scheme for loading a temporary root file system into memory in...

loads or unloads. NetBSD uses a BSD style init. Support for using an initial ramdisk is available but not enabled by default, except for specific configurations...

authentication can by performed by an add-on of the operating system like Linux Initial ramdisk or Microsoft's boot software of the system partition (or boot partition)...

ISO9660 filesystem support with Rock Ridge extensions. RAMdisk device support. Initial RAMdisk (initrd) image support. SVGALib based applications support...

Linux system calls. They are especially useful when sash is used in an initial ramdisk ("initrd") environment. In addition, simple shell variable expansion...

they typically have some of the system's memory (RAM) configured as a ramdisk (or perhaps several RAM disks). This typically leaves the CD-ROM drive...

high-speed storage, such as the Rocket Drive PCI-based solid-state disk and Ramdisk. The company's research and development were located in Redding, California...

area, the "ramdisk". The PC needs to have at least 128 MB of RAM (with no more than 8 MB shared video) for all of Puppy to load into the ramdisk. However...

configuration files) and "/var" (containing variable data) are kept in ramdisk, because the system updates them frequently. Puppy Linux and some other...

Scratch, Incognito, Liberté Linux, Qubes OS, Subgraph, Parrot OS, Tor-ramdisk, and Whonix. Tor has been praised for providing privacy and anonymity to...

Finnix release), stacking a read-write filesystem (in this case, a dynamic ramdisk) on top of a read-only filesystem (the CD media). Any changes made during...

disk-drives. Included utilities were DISKFIX.COM, COPY32.COM, SETUP.COM and RAMDISK.COM. Codename during production: QDOS DOS 4.0 was designed for the 1450XLD...

vs. Gigabyte iRam (gc-Ramdisk) Benchmarks". Archived from the original on 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2009-09-17. ACARD ANS-9010 Ramdisk Review ACard's ANS-9010...

disk drive tools and drivers (AHDI, XHDI, BOOKINST and BOOKFMT) and a RAMdisk installer. 3.01, 3.05, 3.06 (TT TOS) Primarily for 68030 TT support only...

Arch Linux and developed by the United States Department of Defense. Tor-ramdisk is a minimal distribution created solely to host the network anonymity...

Interim Linux was based on Linux 0.12 and made use of Theodore Ts'o's ramdisk code to copy a small root image to memory, freeing the floppy drive for...

companies like Zitel began selling DRAM-based SSD products under the name "RAMDisk." These devices were primarily used in specialized systems like those made...

the two as single storage device. The writable media could be memory (ramdisk), a hard disk, USB flash drive, etc. This means that the user could modify...

Knerr, Beery Miller, and others. Support adding SCSI, IDE, and larger ramdisks were added in the earlier years from the buyout. In late 2020 and early...

for the hack) bootloader that tells boot-dfe about the .img file (the ramdisk or initrd, as it's known by Linux users), and boot-dfe will then use the...

ERA ERASE EXIT FIXDISK FORMAT HELP MD MKDIR MODE MOVE MVDIR PATH PAUSE RAMDISK RD REM REN RENAME RMDIR RNDIR SET TIME TYPE UNDEL VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY...

memory and swap space. freeramdisk — Free all memory allocated to specified ramdisk. fsfreeze — Freeze or unfreeze a filesystem. fstype — Print type of filesystem...