On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: > Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up > > the system before the mounts of > > / and /boot. If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at > > least the minimum required drivers are built-in) > > then the initramfs isn't necessary. > > > > Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely. > > > > My grub.conf line is: > > kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 > > > > pata_it821x.noraid=1 > > > > with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of > > older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed. > > > > IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command. I haven't had > > to use it so I could be wrong. > > Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, and /var, > you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / in the near future. > Yea, real neat. Some need it already just depends on what is installed > from what I read.
Give us a link please Dale. 2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions and I never had to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be called this month). -- Regards, Mick
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