On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 06:06:58PM -0700, Mircea Luca wrote:
> can somebody point the technical advantages of using initrd in the
> boot process against a regular boot-speaking here about /boot/root.bin
You can make your block devices modular, allowing full scsi support without
N custom kernels.
> remembered this from the Debian boot-floppies code) and couldn't see
> anything special but I may be wrong.
It boots, loads any modules you may need to mount root, then mounts it.
> is the system complaining that I recompiled the kernel(well somthing
The modules in the initrd will no longer match your running kernel,
which is a problem. The modbooter program can generate a new initrd
with the correct modules for your kernel. You can remove it from lilo
if you don't use SCSI.
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Ryan Murray, Projects Manager, Stormix Technologies Inc., Debian Developer
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