Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???

[pat]

Thanks to all. Now it cleaner to me :-)

Only (probably) last question: If I want to play with the Xen I can compile
SATA support directly to kernel and it will be still OK ???

Once again thanks a lot.

     Pat

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:08:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> On Thursday 22 February 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > But you are mostly right, around here in Gentoo-land it's become
> > > almost a guerilla rite of passage to be able to drop genkernel and
> > > roll your own (raid users excepted of course)
> >
> > Why? RAID support is as simple as selecting a couple of options in
> > menuconfig. Or were you thinking of LVM? That needs an initr* to use
> > it on /.
>
> hardware raid or software raid? A decent controller will just do
> raid and give you a b lock device to boot from. What about those
> stupid el-cheapo so-called raid controllers that are actually little
> more than bus adapters with four drives attached and you do the real
> raid in software? That will need an initr*
>
> > Dropping genkernel is almost always a good thing. If you roll your
> > own kernel, you will have a better understanding of what's going on
> > and what you need.
>
> Yes, very true. But genkernel is a useful interim measure to help
> get our users from using a binary blob kernel to successfully
> rolling their own.
>
> alan
>
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