On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with > > SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs > > file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have > > to do. And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation (samples, > > explanation, etc.). > > > > And next question is: hat is difference between ramfs and initrd ??? Is it > > the same thing or not ... ??? > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Pat > > you don't need initrd. You don't need initramfs. You don't need to > use genkernel (IMHO genkernel is evil). And you don't need ramfs. > > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind > of raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you > build your kernel and build everything you need to boot into it, you > can live without that crap. >
... so the initramfs is not necessary for the SATA drive when it is not a module ??? Because I think I need it because of the SATA drive. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list