On Wednesday 01 March 2006 7:36 pm, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > Customize your mkinitrd.conf by changing AUTODETECT=0 to AUTODETECT=1,
> > then rebuild your initrd with the mkinitrd auto command, reboot, and they
> > are gone.
>
> OK, but by doing this you don't solve the problem, only bypass it. You
> have a specific initrd for your own system, like having built a specific
> kernel, and if the hardware changes you 'll face a new problem. I'm
> curious how it can be solved while retaining the generic initrd. How do
> other distros do it?

I recall from the time I used Mandrake, that the mkinitrd scripts somehow 
detected your hardware and only included the modules you needed when the 
initrd was created.  I don't recall how exactly it did that, and I don't have 
an old install to look at.  I imagine that hwdetect could somehow be used to 
provide the list of needed modules and only include those in initrd.
-- 
Greg

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