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Gregory Woodbury wrote: |
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> The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up |
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> the system before the mounts of |
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> / and /boot. If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at |
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> least the minimum required drivers are built-in) |
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> then the initramfs isn't necessary. |
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> Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely. |
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> My grub.conf line is: |
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> kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 |
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> pata_it821x.noraid=1 |
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> with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of |
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> older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed. |
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> IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command. I haven't had |
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> to use it so I could be wrong. |
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Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, and /var, |
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you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / in the near future. |
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Yea, real neat. Some need it already just depends on what is installed |
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from what I read. |
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Dale |
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:-) ;-) |
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