On 11/28/18 9:56 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
If you created an initrd (with mkinitrd) then you will
need a new one.
I don't recall doing that myself. But since the machine booted up,
I'm assuming I'm good.
Dick,
Slackware has two types of bootable files: vmlinuz-generic and
vmlinuz-huge. The latter has all modules built in so it's the default.
The
former is streamlined and loads modules only as necessary. It is the
generic
kernel that requires an initial ram disk (initrd), produced by mkinitrd.
If you have sufficient memory on the X200 to hold all modules all
the time
the huger kernel will continue to work for you. If you want to use the
generic kernel make an initrd and have two stanzas in lilo.conf: the
default
being the generic and the alternate the huge. This provides a bootable
system if something is borked when using the generic kernel.
I'll keep that in mind. I did make the boot USB near the end of the
install process. But the whole point of this exercise is to learn stuff,
so I'll read up on your recommendation, too.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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