On Wednesday 16 June 2004 09:19 pm, Scott A. Henderson wrote:
If I follow this you removed the initrd support from the "Block Devices"
menu option. The default configuration is to have this "built-in"
I am not sure I understand the second part o this referring to IDE and
ext3 those from what I can tell are part of the configuration already.
Can you clarify this point.
The weird reiser messages you saw probably meant you were having trouble with
your initrd. (How did you compile the kernel anyway? Did you use make-kpkg
or do it from scratch?)
The other poster said that he just got around his own initrd troubles by
getting rid of the need to have an initrd entirely.
It's an initial ramdisk, a mechanism that makes it possible to compile
everything in a kernel as modules, and then load the necessary modules at
boot time. You don't need one if the modules you need in order to boot (in
order to gain access to your root filesystem) are compiled directly into the
kernel. This will normally *not* be the case if you're starting off with
Debian's own config, so you'll need to tweak these options. (Change from M
to Y.)