On Wednesday 02 July 2003 15:22, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:22, Robert Crawford wrote:
> > James,
> > I am using reiserfs on all partitions, but it doesn't seem to affect
> > anything negatively so far. Where did you get that info- I don't recall
> > ever reading anything like that before? If I'm doing something
> > incorrectly, I'd sure like to correct it!
>
> Just from experience.  AKA I've not been able to get my reiserfs
> partitioned boxes to boot correctly without an initrd.img   It also
> comes from reading a number of related threads in the cooker etc.
> Things initrd.img does allow you to do is to mount those things that
> don't have a way to be mounted until a kernel is booted. (pcmcia
> ide-scsi usb etc etc.) a number of modern periperals on the pci bus also
> seem to need this to start.  If you boot.  I'd say you aren't doing
> anything wrong.  You boot it works.. it's not broken.  But if it doesn't
> boot or things have trouble initializing ... this may be the reason.
>
> James
>

James,
This makes a lot of sense. As I don't have much attached to my boxes, only a 
BJC240 printer and a serial modem, that must explain why I'm not running into 
trouble. I do ocassionally borrow my ex-wife's Canon Powershot G2 digital USB 
camera, and that hooks up OK through the Konqueror Control Center. I expect 
you are correct though- if I tried much else I'd start having problems.

Robert C.


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