On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 06:04:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Nenad Antonic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently, there is a bug (at least from my perspective) which > > prevents initrd/cramfs in stock kernels, which has been arround for > > years. On the other hand, this bug gets fixed in every version of > > debian > > Why are you trying to use initrd anyway? It's much easier to build the > drivers into the kernel.
Not if you want the kernel to function on a wide variety of hardware. Plus there are some situations that a monolithic kernel just can adapt to, such as system partitions on a firewire device (sbp2 can't be built into the kernel TMK). -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar
