Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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
This is usually solved by Rescue.. > 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. I still don't understand why since the modules in the ramdisk will be somewhere on disk anyway so when / is mounted, disk is available thus modules also. > Do I make any sense at all? Nope :-). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
