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On Fri 19 August 2011 15:06:46 frares@×××××.com did opine thusly: |
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> > Some Gentoo users still need an initramfs, such as booting off |
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> > drives in a RAID configuration. They need the RAID drivers |
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> > first to read the disks so use an initramfs to fix this little |
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> > problem exactly as Ubunut fixes their problem. |
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> > Make sense? |
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> Completely! Thanks a lot. |
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> So I guess that my problem is to find an appropriate pair of driver |
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> and hard disk operating mode. |
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That's right. Don't forget the filesystem drivers. For example if you |
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mount an ext3 partition at / and it's on a SATA drive, then you need |
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SATA and ext3 drivers in the kernel (not as modules). |
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