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On Friday 25 April 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> > Do you want to use an initrd, or due the highly customized thing |
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> > and dispense with it? |
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> OK, let me explain a bit. I started compiling a kernel for this |
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> install and somehow missed something important for filesystems. (I |
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> don't remember what now) during make menuconfig. |
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> Rather than keep plugging away with menuconfig I ran `genkernel all' |
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> which I have done many times. It always produces an intramfs but I |
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> have simpley ignored and deleted from /boot. Went ahead with the |
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> very same grub.conf as posted in this thread. (With different |
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> devices), and never had any trouble with the kernel demanding an |
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> intramfs. My take was that if you don't tell the OS to use an |
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> intramfs in grub.conf then it doesn't... no harm no foul. |
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I've hit that kind of thing a few times myself. Nowadays I just grit my |
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teeth and wait for a spare hour to run menuconfig and give it the |
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attention it deserves. |
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Something seems to have changed with 2.6.25, more so than normal for new |
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versions. For instance, b43 refuses point blank to work here or do |
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anything remotely useful like a nice driver should. b43legacy doesn't |
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work either. They both work with earlier versions although performance |
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sucks. I was hoping that this would be the version where I could dump |
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ndiswrapper. Maybe next time... |
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Let us know how you get on with a custom config |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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