On Wednesdayen den 19 December 2001 00.26, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesdayen den 18 December 2001 15.21, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What if I had /usr/local as... ntfs (silly I know), that fs module > > > > won't be in the ramdisk. > > > > > > so what, after loading the / partitions it will load the others > > > modules for others partitions. > > > > Yes, I understand that. The problems I have had occurs when I forget to > > fix lilo... > > Oden -- but what is the problem exactly ? > > What's in ramdisk is only for mounting the / partition, no more > is needed, so if you're using ext3, reiserfs module is not needed > in ramdisk.
A number of times when I have upgraded the kernel, I forgot to fix the depmod and the ramdisk stuff manually. In these rare cases it leaved me with a kernel without modules, other than those in the ramdisk (no nic, etc.). I must add that the automization doing rpm "-U" or "-i" of the kernel works much better now. As I use my md for backups and other important stuff I have to have it accessible at all times. Since my recent change to ext3 on "/", the fact that my md is at "/mnt/md0" and rfs, I now need to make the ramdisk manually anyway. What I'm trying to say is... if one uses things like md, it would be nice to have mkinitrd check what fs the md is using, and include (or propose to include) that module in the ramdisk, regardless of its mountpoint. Do I make any sense at all? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.16-10mdksmp: 19 hours 1 minute | cpu0 @ 799.53 bm, fan 4245 rpm, temp +27°C | cpu1 @ 801.17 bm, fan 4591 rpm, temp +28.0°C
