Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:49:54AM +0000, cmetzler@speakeasy.net wrote:
> and I never messed with an initrd. My understanding is that the purpose
> of an initrd is to provide an image of a RAMdisk containing the modules
> the kernel needs to access the root file system; but if the hardware and
> filesystem support needed is compiled into the kernel, why even bother
> with an initrd?
Indeed, you're not required to use an initrd. Compile in the stuff you
need to boot and off you go.
The advantage is more significant for prebuilt images which want to
include all the drivers without statically compiling them all in.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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