On Fri 19 August 2011 15:06:46 fra...@gmail.com did opine thusly: > > Some Gentoo users still need an initramfs, such as booting off > > drives in a RAID configuration. They need the RAID drivers > > first to read the disks so use an initramfs to fix this little > > problem exactly as Ubunut fixes their problem. > > > > Make sense? > > Completely! Thanks a lot. > > So I guess that my problem is to find an appropriate pair of driver > and hard disk operating mode.
That's right. Don't forget the filesystem drivers. For example if you mount an ext3 partition at / and it's on a SATA drive, then you need SATA and ext3 drivers in the kernel (not as modules). -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
