On Wednesday 19 Dec 2001 00:05, Oden Eriksson wrote: > 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?
It might make more sense to me if I knew what "md" was. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 0 hours 46 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------
