Re: [Cooker] RPM kernel upgrades Howto? TOO EASY!!!

[J . A . Magallon]

On 04.08 Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
> Frankly, with all the excellent work Chmouel is doing in installkernel, I
> fail to see why anything at all should be compiled into the kernel.  Yes, I
> understand that more people use ide than SCSI and also more use ext2 than
> reiserfs; but still - what reasons are there that those two modules are not
> in an initrd?
> 

If IDE was not built-in, you would have seen tons of mails about bad kernel
updates from 2.4.2-Xmdk to the next (2.4.3?) and boxes not booting. If
building initrd fails on a box with IDE root, at least it boots, even if
you do not have sound or X. The
problem appears only in marginal cases, like booting from my 1520 or from
other non-common roots.

Perhaps the solution (not 8.0, sure) is to have a big initrd with ALL the
drivers; try to build the customized one, and if it fails, install the big
one and warn the user.

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J.A. Magallon                                          #  Let the source
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