On Friday 28 October 2005 16:13, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > Dear list, > I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am impressed. I have > generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the kernel is in /boot. > However, I do not have 'initrd' but 'initramfs'. is this a problem or > should I modify grub appropriately? > Gavin.
I touched genkernel only once (when a friend used it, and it made a totally useless kernel) and from my experience it builds inadequate kernels. Plus, if you are not using raid, any initrd/initramfs just adds time and overhead to your booting. It is a waste of ressources. The only ones who 'need' it are distributions, who do want to use a 'one kernel fits all' approach and people with / on a raid/dm device. Just build a kernel by yourself. It is easy. make menuconfig mount /boot make all modules_install install and let grub.conf point to vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. The install run will create a vmlinuz link to your latest kernel and a vmlinuz.old link to the one used. -- [email protected] mailing list
