On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > 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.
And what about kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc ? Does it work fine also ? And if not did you fill a bug report. If yes, what motivated you to build your own kernel over using the debian provided one ? Friendly, Sven Luther
