Re: initrd.img and booting

[Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:19:06AM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> 
> Also, is there a URL or reference listing
> what should be compiled directly into a kernel to avoid the
> need to create an intrd.img?

I guess not, because it is specific to your system. In general, all
drivers needed to mount your root filesystem.

For a standard PC, that would be the drivers for the ide controller, for
the ide disk, and for the / filesystem (probably ext3, but it might be a
different one).

For other systems, it might be scsi, network and nfs (nfs-root systems),
usb (your system on a usb drive, why not ?),...

Frank


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