-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Here's what I want to do. I was told I need an initrd file. My small home > recording studio is booting from an internal EIDE drive, but doing most > everything else with 1394. All the apps are on the 1394 drive, and the > audio goes on and off of the 1394 drive. > > After booting I want to switch over and run Gentoo from a group of 1394 > drives located in a closet, and then spin down the EIDE drive to reduce > noise. > > I was told I'd need to start Linux using an initial RAM disk, and then > change over where the root file system is located after the 1394 drives are > found. > > I don't know how to do this, so I'm just learning step by step. If anyone > thinks this doesn't make sense, or has an easier way to do it, I'd > certainly be interested. > > Cheers, > Mark >
ok, thats probably a diffrend kind of initrd, i just searched the forums for it, never realy used a initrd ;p, i have no clue how to do what you just told me, but i found and started reading /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5/Documentation/initrd.txt a bit, and it seems like it has something to do with what you are talking about, maybe it can help, maybe not ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+70xElDgijDJG3oERAqF7AJ4qwHU7+77E3KzFHPT1ThPynd7haACggMCA NovsH6YgbeeK/cxSD8XM+HU= =7kkk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
