Hi, Sven Luther writes:
> So, we only need to trim the discover database to what is in the > initrd, or what we want to load at this stage ? Using discover is pointless if you already know what to load. > i sincerely doubt that the 4Mo initrd i have generated on my system > is indeed very specific, Put MODULES=dep in mkinitrd.conf to get the size down. And if you think 4MB is large, you haven't seen an initrd generated with that MODULES=all and BUSYBOX=yes. > modifying of the hardware [...] > traveling around with the harddisk and use it on various different > boxes. [...] > now, let's say your disk controller died, your box is no more under > waranty, and you just go out and buy a cheap PCI ide controller and > plug your disk on it. Personally, I keep rescue systems around for situations like this. And mkinitrd explicitly states that it's not intended for this purpose. Notwithstanding the fact that you can actually make a very nice rescue system with mkinitrd and mkvmlinuz. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
