Hi, I just upgraded from Potato to Woody, and installed Kernel 2.4. (Using only a 28.8k internet connection that drops after 2 hours. It's a tribute to the greatness of apt that this was still a relatively painless process!)
I have a few queries. What exactly is the purpose of the initial ramdisk image which I need to boot? I have my suspicions, but I'm not really sure. It's obviously important, because my system won't boot without it. Interestingly, when I installed kernel-image-2.4.3, it reconfigured lilo but didn't put the initrd in the lilo config file. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? Is the initial ramdisk there so that the kernel can load modules before it has mounted the root partition? If so, does this mean I can put my root partition on a ReiserFS partition, even though ReiserFS is (in the default kernel-image package) compiled as a module? If not, do I need to compile a kernel with ReiserFS built in? If so, what changes (if any) to I have to make to the initial ramdisk, and how to I go about making them? Thanks in advance, Jim
