----- Original Message ---- > From: Goh Lip <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, 20 June, 2010 10:49:52 > Subject: Re: no initrd - update
> href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html"; > target=_blank > >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd.html Regards > - Goh Lip ================== Interesting read, thanks. And this link answers one of my questions, why it is possible (sometimes) to boot without initrd - because the kernel includes all the modules needed to boot on the particular hardware: http://www.ktrap.org/node/7874 And this link says that booting with initrd can take longer (2.5 seconds): http://kerneltrap.org/node/15036 I did some measurements on my computer, how long it takes to boot until the Gnome desktop appears. The time varies a lot, so I took four measurements and averaged them. It took me 4 seconds more on average to boot with initrd (+SELinux) than without, so I am considering going back to booting without initrd. One advantage of using initrd, though, is that it can handle UUID for the kernel disk, and the advantage of that is that I can still boot if I delete a lower number partition (because if I for example delete /dev/sdb9 then /dev/sdb10 will be renumbered as /dev/sdb9 and so on, so that can screw up grub.cfg). _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
