On 9 May 2009, at 16:23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote:
On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Could you possibly explain why, please?
Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until
a few
weeks ago), ...
I believed you could manage without either a /boot volume or an
initramfs.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.
I think you are. The need for an initramfs has nothing to do with
whether
/boot is a separate partition of not. grub is equally happy loading
the kernel
from (hd0,0)/vmlinux or (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinux
It has everything to do with making necessary kernel modules
available at boot
time. The kernel cannot load block device and filesystem drivers
that are on
the device it needs to read (chicken and egg). However, it can get
them from a
ram disk which is all an initrd is and which grub supports.
Simply compile the drivers into the kernel.
Indeed. So this seems an "unnecessary rule" to me.
Stroller.
