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On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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> > pata_it821x.noraid=1 |
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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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Give us a link please Dale. |
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2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions and I never had |
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to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be called |
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this month). |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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