I've rebuilt my kernel and it works fine.(Now running 2.4.19). No problem on boot up... no problem at all. However, after rebuilding the kernel, I saw some other instructions that said it was necessary to create an initrd image. I hadn't done that and everything seems to be fine.
However, curious person that I am, I went and ran mkinitrd and created the initrd image for the kernel. I then put the information into lilo.conf, ran lilo and rebooted. Everything booted fine... no problems... just as without the initrd image. My question is simply, is the initrd image necessary? What does it do? Is it supposed to speed up the boot process? I can't really see any difference in boot up. I know it's being loaded at boot up because I see message saying it's being loaded and then unloaded later during boot up. Thanks, Rick
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