RE: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

[Grégory Karékinian <kare@lautre.net>]

Hi,

I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel
without initrd. I indeed don't have any scsi hdd, so i don't think i
need it.

Any help appreciated, thanks in advance.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Ekbrand [mailto:hans@sociologi.cjb.net] 
> Sent: samedi 16 février 2002 21:13
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic
> 
> 
[...]
> 
> Do you really need to boot through initrd? A customized 2.4 
> kernel that
> does not depend on initrd, should have no problems at all 
> with 8 Mb, and
> if you will go through and customize, then why not to do it as simple
> as possible?
> 
> I might have missunderstood the uses of initrd, but I thought it was
> most useful for general setups where hardware is unknown and 
> other media
> is not (easily) accessible, e.g new installations or booting 
> over the network.
>