Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in module

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in module

Re: Initrd or not ?

2006-01-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
John Hasler wrote: Joey Hess writes: This assumes a best case scenario that you will never need to get some new peice of hardware working at a time when taking the time out to set up a new kernel will be painful. You seem to be equating initrd to modular kernel. I have the drivers for my

Re: Initrd or not ?

2006-01-03 Thread John Hasler
Joey Hess writes: > This assumes a best case scenario that you will never need to get some > new peice of hardware working at a time when taking the time out to set > up a new kernel will be painful. You seem to be equating initrd to modular kernel. I have the drivers for my present hardware comp

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:45 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in modules and >

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
J.F. Gratton wrote: > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in modules and > must not ? This assumes a best case scenario that you will

Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > solved, but not at my full satisfaction... > > > > I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a > > 2.6.12-10 config file. > > > > I therefore voided one of the main gain I wanted b

Re: initrd or not

2002-10-13 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:06, Brian Nelson wrote: > bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > hi Debian-users, > > > > I installed Woody and got the default 2.2.20-idepci kernel. > > Later I updated that to 2.4.18-k7 kernel using apt-get. > > Then just for fun I compiled a 2.4.19 from tarball making

Re: initrd or not

2002-10-11 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:10, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > i say initrd is not generally needed ... > > my simplistic view... > > i use initrd only when i am booting a scsi system > from a ide-based kernel ( same as lots of distros ) I have a real scsi cdrw but I doubt that it plays any part in the

Re: initrd or not

2002-10-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i say initrd is not generally needed ... my simplistic view... i use initrd only when i am booting a scsi system from a ide-based kernel ( same as lots of distros ) if scsi is built into the kernel, you wont need initrd ?? most people compile the ide drivers into their kernel initrd i

initrd or not

2002-10-11 Thread bob parker
hi Debian-users, I installed Woody and got the default 2.2.20-idepci kernel. Later I updated that to 2.4.18-k7 kernel using apt-get. Then just for fun I compiled a 2.4.19 from tarball making the .config from what came with the 2.4.18 kernel without any changes. I did the make modules, make modu