On Thursday 22 February 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind of > raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you build > your kernel and build everything you need to boot into it, you can > live without that crap.
In all fairness, an initramfs and a fully modular kernel is the only realistic way to build a binary distro CDs for redistribution. Or the Gentoo LiveCDs for that matter. We *could* use the slackware approach and supply 10 basic kernels and ask you to choose the most appropriate one, but that never really caught on :-) But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become almost a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and roll your own (raid users excepted of course) alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
