Ryan Murray wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Ryan Murray, Projects Manager, Stormix Technologies Inc., Debian Developer
> Opinions expressed in this email are not necessarily those of my employer.
>
Thanks ,kinnda guessed after reding the lilo doc ,but I wanted to be
sure.Now I'll mail the maintainer to ask how it can be used exactly
since version in my system is 0.0: ?? and no man page or info page
exists.
needles to say the help screen is useless without an example and and
howto,man page,refference to specific docs.
Thanks again
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