Michael Sullivan schreef: > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 17:13 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote:
>> you only need an initrd if you have some special hardware. Do you? >> I.E. sata controler (intel ICH6), SCSI, or some special things with >> your root filesystem like lvm, md... > > Then why does Linux not continue to boot when I specify a kernel in > grub.conf without an initrd? Because you still need one specified in grub.conf? Genkernel makes one by default, so it must be specified in grub.conf. If you build a kernel by hand, you most likely don't have an initrd (unless you're using one for gensplash), so it need not be specified (unless needed for gensplash). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
