Hello Robert, Thanks 4 the clarification. A HUGE thanks for your effort re: the devel. kernel. Looks like 2.6_pre is gonna get out soon. :) (saw a post from Linus May 23) I don't use labels. But it's nice to see the pitfalls prior to stepping in um'. Have u patched your tree with Andrew Morgan's patch set?
Thanks again, j Robert P. J. Day said: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jesse Jacobs wrote: > >> Hello Robert, >> >> I have to admit, I'm still inexperienced with all this stuff. >> >> I haven't made an initrd in a while now. >> >> What'd ya think o the new xconfig? Sweet eh! > > yup, especially *my* contribution (he said, ever so smugly). > >> Seriously though, My understanding was that an initrd.img was only >> required if you built as a module the file system on which the "/" and >> subsequently the "/lib/modules/2.5.X" location on. From which >> additional modules could be loaded. > > one difference i recall is that, if you use an initrd.img, the mounting > of the root filesystem is done in userspace with tools that understand > LABEL= entries in your /etc/fstab file. > > if you don't use an initrd.img, the mounting is done by the kernel, > which does *not* understand labels. that's what i got burned by > once upon a time which inspired me to start looking into this a > little more carefully. > > and (also from memory), there's more to it than just that these > days. > > in short, even if you don't need any particular modules to just > mount your root FS, there are other reasons for using an initrd. > > rday > > p.s. some of the intricacies for initrd are in the > Documentation/initrd.txt file in the kernel source tree, but > that file seems fairly out of date (2000). > > any pointers to a newer version somewhere? > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
