Bah, sent directly to a Canonical employee rather than a mailing list. Why does Gmail keep doing this? grr...
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:18 PM Subject: Re: Ubuntu initramfs (Was: Re: any reason for CONFIG_FUSE_FS=y) To: Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 12:09 PM Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2022 at 17:53, Richard Laager <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 8/9/22 11:38, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > > The fast majority of Ubuntu installations boot without initramfs at > > > all. > > > > What makes you say this? Every Ubuntu system I've ever installed has an > > initrd.img-KERNEL_VERSION in /boot. In this context, I'm talking about > > systems installed using the stock installers (primarily server, but > > desktop was that way last I installed one using the stock installer). > > > > We always generate initrd.img and use it as fallback if/when > initrd-less boot fails. The vast majority of Ubuntu boots are > successful without initrd, for example almost all Ubuntu Public Cloud > images. > > -- > okurrr, > > Dimitri On my system, if the initrd isn't readable by the kernel, it results in a kernel panic. Is that to be expected despite inird-less boot? Or is that an indicator that at least Lubuntu (and probably Ubuntu Desktop) does use an initrd? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
