On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Orlando Andico wrote:
I *NEVER* had to screw around with mkinitrd in all my years (twelve,
as of now...) of compiling kernels.
The last kernel I compiled was 2.6.18-something for Fedora 5. And like
all the kernels before it, I just got the canonical TAR from
kernel.org, dropped it somewhere, compiled it, copied the System.map
and bzImage to /boot, and updated grub.conf
I never, ever, ever have had to screw around with mkinitrd. In fact I
only have a fuzzy idea of what it does!!
*nods in agreement*
personally, i find initrd just adds complexity where there should be
less. i've never tried it myself. but from the distros that i've seen
that do use it... they use it to boot / if / uses fs like reiserfs,
xfs... etc. don't know if they do use it to boot if the fs is also
ext2/3.
if ever the root fs is ext3 (which makes good sense)... you don't
need mkinitrd.
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