On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 13:10, Robert Crawford wrote: > On Wednesday 02 July 2003 15:22, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:22, Robert Crawford wrote: > > > James, > > > I am using reiserfs on all partitions, but it doesn't seem to affect > > > anything negatively so far. Where did you get that info- I don't recall > > > ever reading anything like that before? If I'm doing something > > > incorrectly, I'd sure like to correct it! > > > > Just from experience. AKA I've not been able to get my reiserfs > > partitioned boxes to boot correctly without an initrd.img It also > > comes from reading a number of related threads in the cooker etc. > > Things initrd.img does allow you to do is to mount those things that > > don't have a way to be mounted until a kernel is booted. (pcmcia > > ide-scsi usb etc etc.) a number of modern periperals on the pci bus also > > seem to need this to start. If you boot. I'd say you aren't doing > > anything wrong. You boot it works.. it's not broken. But if it doesn't > > boot or things have trouble initializing ... this may be the reason. > > > > James > > > > James, > This makes a lot of sense. As I don't have much attached to my boxes, only a > BJC240 printer and a serial modem, that must explain why I'm not running into > trouble. I do ocassionally borrow my ex-wife's Canon Powershot G2 digital USB > camera, and that hooks up OK through the Konqueror Control Center. I expect > you are correct though- if I tried much else I'd start having problems. > > Robert C.
IF! (and it's a big if that's why the caps) I understand it correctly once fully booted... All of these things will work whether you had initrd or not. But if they are needed at boot. They won't ... James
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