On Tue Oct 26 1999 at 00:10, Josh Hildebrand wrote:
> > IIRC, it has ramdisk support and can be used with an initrd to add the
> > boot-time drivers you may need. But then it starts to get messy.
>
> What does it take to make a tomsrtbt use an initrd?.. let's say I wanted
> the minix.o (or whatever it's called) loaded.
With redhat, just use /sbin/mkinitrd (and force the inclusion of the
minix module), but the resulting file also needs to fit onto the
floppy disk - and there's overhead with, for one thing, a static
version of insmod included in it in order to get the module(s) loaded
- probably not worth it after what you save by using a "lean" kernel.
After that, you'll need to run lilo with the initrd= parameter to tell
the kenel that it's there and exactly where to find it.
As I said, it's messy and not recommended. IMHO, much better to build
your own customised kernel for this particular purpose.
Cheers
Tony
