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Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ?

From Helmut@Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen)
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ?
Date 2011-04-03 17:15 +0200
Organization Hullen BS
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Hallo, Douglas,

Du meintest am 03.04.11:

>> OK, perhaps the initrd & vmlinuz must be 'created together' since
>> the driver routines don't have standard locations .. and initrd must
>> be 'linked' to vmlinuz ?

[...]

> The "modular" kernel requires an initrd.

No - "that depends".

You can build a kernel with some "built in" modules for booting into  
runlevel 1, and all the modules only needed in higher runlevels (6  
excluded) can be loaded without the help of an init-ramdisk.

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

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why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2011-04-03 13:47 +0000
  Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? Douglas Mayne <none@invalid.com> - 2011-04-03 15:06 +0000
    Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? Helmut@Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) - 2011-04-03 17:15 +0200
      Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-03 12:24 -0500
        Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? Helmut@Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) - 2011-04-03 19:37 +0200
          Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 12:40 +0000
  Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-04-03 15:30 +0000
  Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-04-03 20:01 +0000

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