Re: [expert] Mkinitrd Necessary for building kernel?

2002-11-15 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
Not at all. it depends on how you configure your kernel. E.g., you use an ext3 partition bu yu don't compile support for ext3 directly into the kernel, but as a module; so you need an initrd to mount the partition at boot. Wooky Rick Friedman wrote: I've rebuilt my kernel and it works fine.(

Re: [expert] Mkinitrd Necessary for building kernel?

2002-11-15 Thread Larry Sword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Friedman wrote: |I've rebuilt my kernel and it works fine.(Now running 2.4.19). No |problem on boot up... no problem at all. However, after rebuilding the |kernel, I saw some other instructions that said it was necessary to |create an initrd imag

[expert] Mkinitrd Necessary for building kernel?

2002-11-15 Thread Rick Friedman
I've rebuilt my kernel and it works fine.(Now running 2.4.19). No problem on boot up... no problem at all. However, after rebuilding the kernel, I saw some other instructions that said it was necessary to create an initrd image. I hadn't done that and everything seems to be fine. However, curious