On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:11:07 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20 using an initrd. It works
fine and I don't feel inclined to get involved in initramfs voodoo
just to change an already working system
What is that voodoo you're talking about. I did
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become almost
a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and roll your
own (raid users excepted of course)
Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of
Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-)
Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile
SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ???
Once again thanks a lot.
Pat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
On Thursday 22 February
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:41, pat wrote:
P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-|
Any modules or userland utilities needed to mount your '/' filesystem, plus
all the libraries and other utilities they depend on, plus a linuxrc or
init
script that will actually do the
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:39, pat wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote
initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile
everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind
of raid), or people too stupid to build their
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you could dp it the way Boyd does it - with his / on an lvm group. To
do that he needs an initramfs which has drivers for at least his disk
bus, his disk adapter, the filesystem on / and lvm before his kernel
can access /. Genkernel
On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re:
[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working
rather
than an initramfs -- the whole chroot/exec vs. pivot_root vs. switch_root
step always failed for me when using an initramfs (and the very same
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
For the life of me, I always found it easier to get an initrd working
rather
than an initramfs
[snip]
At least, that's been my experience, others may have found the
process easier.
No you are not alone. I eventually found proof
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:10:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
On Thursday 22 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can
compile SATA support directly to kernel
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an
initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports*
initrd format, even if initramfs is preferred now.
It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20
Am Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:23 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I am fairly certain I was still using my custom initrd (not an
initramfs) until 2.6.17 -- I'm fairly sure 2.6.20 still *supports*
initrd format, even if initramfs is
Hi,
I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with SATA
drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs file too. My
question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have to do. And if it
is necessary where I can find good documentation
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation
(samples, explanation, etc.).
Pretty much all of the documenation on early userspace is in the kernel
tree. You might even
, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about '[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation
(samples, explanation, etc.).
Pretty much all of the documenation on early userspace
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote:
Hi,
I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with
SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs
file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have
to do. And if it is
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re:
[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
OK, so I have to search for ramfs. What tool is used to create initramsf
file for boot or how to compile it into kernel and how to use it with
grub ???
Each distro has their own
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user]
ramfs - is it necessary ???':
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote:
My question is if this is realy necessary and if
not, what I have to do. And if it is necessary where I can find good
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote:
Hi,
I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with
SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs
file too. My question is if this
OK, thanks.
Pat
P.S. Question is what should be part of the initramfs :-|
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:25:36 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
OK, so I have to search
On Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007, pat wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote
On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote:
Hi,
I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook
with SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 21 February 2007, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re:
[gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???':
First, I think the OP is confused between ramfs and initramfs.Not quite
the same thing...
But the thread has become
On Thursday 22 February 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile
everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind of
raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you build
your kernel and build everything
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