On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:53, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 19:42, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:16, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > I would have liked to try a 2.6 kernel to see if that would help, but > > > never managed to get an initrd.img built that would actually boot.I > > > learnt loads about how initrd actually works, and the like, but never > > > quite enough ): > > > > I'd appreciate being told a few references because I want to go down that > > track too. > > chris, on gentoo the genkernel program produces a kernel and matching > initrd. you can use your own .config. it even outputs the exact grub > config stanza at the end, just copy and paste into grub. Thanks, but I know that, and it works very well. Gentoo is so convenient it hides the nitty-gritty which I want to know about.
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
