Run an executable from InitRamfs

[Rick Stevens]

On 12/30/2010 08:07 PM, ShibuThomas wrote:
> Hi ALL,
>
> Is it possible to execute my application(eg.hello world program) from
> initramfs before switching to /sbin/init and after the execution of my
> application I want to execute kernel Init?.

No.  init is the parent process of the entire system.  You can make your
application run before anything else, but remember that until the 
network is up (e.g. after the NIC drivers are loaded and the network
startup script is run), your machine isn't even seen on the network.
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