On Wednesday 21 February 2007, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???': > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > My question is if this is realy necessary and if > > not, what I have to do. And if it is necessary where I can find good > > documentation (samples, explanation, etc.). > > you don't need initrd. You don't need initramfs. You don't need to use > genkernel (IMHO genkernel is evil). And you don't need ramfs.
That's my experience with genkernel as well. > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind of > raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you build your > kernel and build everything you need to boot into it, you can live > without that crap. I need it because my '/' in on an LVM device which does require some userland tools to setup. initrd/ramfs really isn't "crap", but they are generally unnecessary (unless you have '/' on EVMS/LVM/software-RAID) on Gentoo. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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