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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 19:37 +0200
Organization Hullen BS
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Hallo, Robert,

Du meintest am 03.04.11:

>>> 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.

> Right, the typical 'stock' kernel has the base IDE driver and ext2
> file system modules compiled in.  So, if you have an (old?) IDE
> system disk and only use an ext2 file system on the root file system,
> you don't need an initrd.  OTOH, for SATA, SCSI, RAID, and LVM, as
> well as ext3, you need an initrd.

No - I run a (self made) kernel 2.6.38.1 which uses P-ATA, S-ATA and  
SCSI, without any init-ramdisk. Filesystems: ext2, ext3, btrfs. No  
problems.

The configuration is based on the "huge" slackware kernel.

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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