On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
Hi question question to both of you guys, any reason not to use a initrd ? doesn't it limit your options a lot, I can understand a monolithic kernel - but a partial one ? Alex On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:33:57PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:I'm using grup-pc, which is grub2: che:/home/aperrin# dpkg -l | grep grub ii grub-common 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (common files) ii grub-pc 1.97~beta3-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (PC/BIOS version)[snip]
Alex,How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not having one?
IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration: 1. /boot/kernel 2. /boot/System.map 3. lilo 4. modules (if necessary) No other components. Justin.