On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:40, Roland Wegmann wrote: > 'vmlinux-2.6.6.100704' (my kernel image) and a file 'vmlinux.coff- > 2.6.6.100704'. What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for?
It's junk. > initrd=...). What are the advantages of initrd kernels over non-initrd > kernels? What is the function of the file 'initrd.img-*'? An initrd kernel is required if your kernel would otherwise be unable to mount the root filesystem. Reasons for this include encrypted disks, strange LVM and RAID setup, strange diskless configs, disk drivers as modules, and filesystem drivers as modules. If you have a normal or almost-normal system, forget about initrd. Just yesterday I grabbed a plain 2.6.8-rc1 kernel from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ and it works great on my Mac Cube. Perhaps you should try that.
