Re: Why initrd ?

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Goley
PROTECTED] wrote: > Since long I have two questions, and this is the first one: > > I see initrd kernels all around, and i can imagine the benefits > for 'hijacking' systems (like installers) which need to discover the > hardware first to select the appropriate kernel modules a

Re: Why initrd ?

2006-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: >> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:07:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > But when i'm going to configure a custom kernel, on known hardware, >>

Re: Why initrd ?

2006-08-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:07:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But when i'm going to configure a custom kernel, on known hardware, > > why should i use initrd at all ? I mean, what is the advantage of >

Re: Why initrd ?

2006-08-20 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:07:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since long I have two questions, and this is the first one: > > I see initrd kernels all around, and i can imagine the benefits > for 'hijacking' systems (like installers) which need to discover the >

Why initrd ?

2006-08-20 Thread marlin9
Since long I have two questions, and this is the first one: I see initrd kernels all around, and i can imagine the benefits for 'hijacking' systems (like installers) which need to discover the hardware first to select the appropriate kernel modules and settings. But when i'm goi

Re: initrd (plus Ubuntu on Armada 7400)

2005-01-27 Thread Willie McKemie
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:01:47PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > #1. /etc/mkinitrd/modules should contain: > > jdb > ext2 > ext3 > > # mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386 /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386 Thank you SO much! The above is EXACTLY what I needed. I fixed it up with only th

Re: initrd

2005-01-26 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Wille, This answer comes from my vague memories of converting 2.4 systems to ext3 (I'm now using a 2.6 kernel without an initrd so that I can suspend to disk without problems!) There is an EXT3-debian howto that I followed for this which was quite nice: http://www.debian.or

initrd

2005-01-26 Thread Willie McKemie
I've installed kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386_2.4.27-2_i386.deb on a system with a ext3 filesystem. It seems the kernel has ext3 configured as a module. I THINK that that means I need to make a initrd for it? I've tried "mkinitrd /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-386" and similar t