On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:02:57 +1200, cr wrote: > Can any kind person give some info on the following: > > I don't seem to have a 'initrd' file - does it matter?
It does if you load a SCSI module at boot time, according to the Red Hat Linux Customization Guide. You can browse this and other manuals: http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/rhl72.html If you decide you need one, look for mkinitrd(8). The man page says: mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules > I'm not quite sure how to address DOS. If anyone has a dual boot Linux/DOS > setup, the contents of their /boot/grub/grub.conf or menu.lst files > would maybe give a guide. ############################################################ # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making # changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to # /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14Apr06_2003) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14Apr06_2003 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14Apr06_2003.img title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ############################################################ My partition layout is like this: DOS/Windows C: is hda1 Linux /boot is hda3 DOS/Windows D: is hda5 Linux / is hda6 hda5 and hda6 are logical partitions within hda2, which is an extended partition. I know, a killer layout! I was desperate to get Linux on my computer then, somehow :-). So, the gub.conf says to load DOS from (hd0,0), which is hda1. I'm a little foggy as to what the `rootnoverify' does, but I'm sure it's all in the GRUB info file. HTH, Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
