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Re: 2.4.9 kernel and large initrd file



On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Erik Erskine wrote:
> Philippe Ribet wrote:
> 
> >Did you compile 2.4.9 kernel yourself with integrated SCSI support inself ?
> >If it's compiled as module, module can't be loaded...
> 
> 
> No, I'm using a pre-build one specified on the debian site 
> (http://www.uk.debian.org/News/2001/20010415)
> 
> I've got the source for this, I'd like to find a .config file so that I 
> can change it as little as possible from the original.  I am using this 
> kernel on another all SCSI machine (booting from the hard disk) though.

New stock debian 2.4 kernel uses intrd so it can load modules, I think.
See "man make-kpkg" and "/initrd", or "man mkinitrd" for more.

Cheers :-)

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