John L Fjellstad wrote:
Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:$ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.20050224.0 --initrd kernel_imageWhat's the point of using initrd if you are custom compiling yourkernel?
No point in doing that, really, if you intend to always compile your kernels. My intent was, however, to get mkinitrd properly configured, so when I, at some point, upgrade the kernel with a prebuilt binary one, I would get a working configuration. Getting a working configuration with my most necessary modules (e.g. SATA) in initrd has the benefit of allowing more functional upgrade paths. At least I see it that way. Am I wrong?
There's no penalty for using initrd, right? I would not care about some small delay at boot time.
Andro -- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science