-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rick Friedman wrote:
|I've rebuilt my kernel and it works fine.(Now running 2.4.19). No |problem on boot up... no problem at all. However, after rebuilding the |kernel, I saw some other instructions that said it was necessary to |create an initrd image. I hadn't done that and everything seems to be |fine. | |However, curious person that I am, I went and ran mkinitrd and created |the initrd image for the kernel. I then put the information into |lilo.conf, ran lilo and rebooted. Everything booted fine... no |problems... just as without the initrd image. | |My question is simply, is the initrd image necessary? What does it do? |Is it supposed to speed up the boot process? I can't really see any |difference in boot up. I know it's being loaded at boot up because I see |message saying it's being loaded and then unloaded later during boot up. | |Thanks, |Rick | Suggest first reading: man mkinitrd and man initrd Larry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE91TQwGmoP0nUBNzsRAjajAJ4w3mj0BPCurPFPYNO9//TavLTKKQCaA25d slCDMGsqiEJRU0k2TcFJPoY= =YT2k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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