Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Michael Schmarck: > Nice thing about genkernel (and other such tools in other distributions) > is, that they also create an initrd.
Even though most users don't need one. There are only two cases where one
needs an initrd/initramfs:
1) Your / fs is encrypted and/or located on a logical volume or soft raid
device.
2) You need a propietary driver module for getting at your / fs.
> "Bad" thing is, that they compile
> way too much (which only harms in so far, as it makes the time needed
> for compiling stuff longer and makes /lib/modules bigger than it needs
> to be).
True.
Bye...
Dirk
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