On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Javier Gostling wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 08:55:02AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >   as it stands, the only modules supplied by red hat's
> > current initrd.img are for ext3 and jbd, so it's easy
> > enough to build those into a new kernel and not have
> > to mess with initrd any more.  is this a fair
> > observation?
> 
> Only in ide drive systems. If your root FS is on a SCSI drive, initrd
> also loads the SCSI controller's driver.

ah, so the initrd.img file is built at installation time 
based on HW detection, is it?  of course, that makes sense.
that suggests that any more digging into that topic would
probably be more appropriate on the anaconda list if i were
so inclined.

rday



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