Mick wrote:
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote:
Gregory Woodbury wrote:
The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up
the system before the mounts of
/ and /boot. If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at
least the minimum required drivers are built-in)
then the initramfs isn't necessary.
Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely.
My grub.conf line is:
kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda2
pata_it821x.noraid=1
with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of
older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed.
IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command. I haven't had
to use it so I could be wrong.
Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, and /var,
you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / in the near future.
Yea, real neat. Some need it already just depends on what is installed
from what I read.
Give us a link please Dale.
2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions and I never had
to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be called
this month).
It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line:
"Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs
in the handbook?"
I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it sucks. I
have /var on a separate partition and want to put /usr on one to but not
now.
I think it can be found on gmane.com. Again, it is on -dev and yes I
raised my objections to this but it is UPSTREAM from Gentoo. Dang
Fedora or something. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
