On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:17, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > I thought that initrd was only needed if you required SCSI drivers for the > > root file system. However, after building a new kernel, both grub and lilo > > choke on the new kernel at boot, saying that I didn't specify an initrd. > > > > Is there something in the kernel config that could be causing this? If no > > init= is included in the boot loader, why would it need an initrd at all > > for IDE? > > > > <WAG> > ext3 - journaling > </WAG>
even if the root FS is ext3, that won't matter -- it would just be mounted as ext2 if ext3 support is not available. so the lack of an initrd should not cause the boot to fail. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
