Hi Erich, >> The question is, how useful is it to backup initrd? Life could be >> made very easy when the option to backup initrd is removed. There are >> different initrd packages which makes booting of of most systems >> possible (floppy, usb, cdrom and hd) and if anything is missing a new >> initrd can be added. > >OK, I can agree on that, then why not remove the option of backing up >initrd entirely? If one can specify initrd at boot _and_ there is >anoption to back it up, then IMHO it should work. > That's what I meant ;-) If that option is removed, the initrd can also made smaller, because the code needed to backup (mkfs.minix) can be removed.
>> >> Note that the initrd is installed by linuxrc, not lrpkg -I. > >If I am not mistaken, initrd is read by the kernel at boot, is it >installed one more time? > You are right, what I meant is that the initrd(_*) is installed with / var/lib/lrpkg/initrd.* names at early bootstage. >cheers > >Erich Eric ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
