cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never used initrd, at least not when I have compiled a kernel. > To be entirely honest I have never fully understood just what it > does. I was under the impression it was for things like booting from > reiser fs and having to load modules to do it. However, that always > made me wonder why a person would just not compile in the reiser > support, and so I have naturally assumed that I was dead wrong on why > it existed and what it accomplished. But, since I have never seemed > to need it, i.e. my system has always booted fairly predictably > without it, I never tried to learn more.
initrd's are especially useful for distros, because a kernel with all stuff compiled in is not an option (too big), but you still need some of the modules very early in the boot process, when the root filesystem is not accessible yet. For your particular system you can afford to compile everything in, because you know exactly what you need and what you don't. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
