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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
|---|---|
| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Subject | Re: why must initrd 'track' vmlinuz ? |
| References | <in9tpo$cns$1@dont-email.me> <ina2ct$tuh$1@news.xmission.com> <Bj8mn+ei1uB@helmut.hullen.de> |
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.slackware, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Message-ID | <t5CdnS8oDJzCMAXQnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@posted.localnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2011-04-03 12:24 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
At 03 Apr 2011 17:15:00 +0200 Helmut@Hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote:
>
> 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.
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.
>
> 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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