James Vahn wrote:
No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not generated during kernel compilation.Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in? PCI IDE chipset support? I'm out of guesses, sorry.
Yes, this is all built into the kernel (including ext3 and jbd).I read something about that you need to use an initrd image file when the root partition has an ext3 filesystem. But I guess this is only needed when the ext3 drivers are loaded as a module?