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On 9 Feb 2009, at 18:03, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller: |
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>> I don't "like" initrd and the longer kernel |
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>> lines in grub.conf that they require. |
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> Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf? |
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> Here's mine, as an example: |
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> title=Gentoo Linux |
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> kernel /vmlinux.gz realroot=/dev/evms/root vga=0x31B notsc |
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> Quite short and simple, isn't it? You don't even recognize that it |
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> uses an |
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> initramfs (because it's embedded in the kernel itself). |
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Am I not correct in thinking that initramfs used to be / can be / was |
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originally a separate file which goes in /boot and is described with |
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an extra boot parameter? |
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I wasn't aware that you could embed the initramfs into the kernel |
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itself - after reading Neil's message yesterday I looked up more about |
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the initramfs, contemplated about the idea of doing so and decided |
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"naw, you'll never be able to do that, it would make the kernel too |
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big and take up too much memory". |
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I certainly can recognise that you're doing something bogus, because |
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your kernel parameters use "realroot=" and not just "root=" |
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Stroller. |
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