Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dmitri Pogosyan <pogosyan@×××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:59:37
Message-Id: 200510310056.j9V0uM728063@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca
1 It is not needed, I believe, with new kernels. Remnants from the earlier
2 days, in my case. I am still mostly on 2.6.11 kernel with devfs, actually,
3 and am used to combinations udev+nodevfs, devfs+noudev (which had quite
4 magical interactions between themselves, BTW)
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7 > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:21:52 +0100
8 > DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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10 > > Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
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12 > > >Not really, you can use initramfs in place of initrd. I have in
13 > > >grub.conf
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15 > > >title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.13-r3 UDEV
16 > > >root (hd0,0)
17 > > >kernel /kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=16384
18 > > >init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/sda2 vga=3847 udev
19 > > >initrd /initramfs-2.6.13-gentoo-r3
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21 > I've notice that some ppl are putting udev on the kernel line. I was
22 > under the impression that this was not needed to get udev working?
23 >
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25 > bruce
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