From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932240AbVKFRuK (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:50:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932246AbVKFRuK (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:50:10 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:47414 "EHLO pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932240AbVKFRuJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 12:50:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:50:05 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Whys and hows of initrds In-reply-to: <55Wvl-4jY-27@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <436E424D.7040909@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <55Wvl-4jY-27@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org grfgguvf@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I don't know if the LKML is a technical kernel development list or a > newbie support list (or both?) so maybe I'm posting to the wrong > place. You likely are.. and this is also quite distribution specific so a distribution support forum would likely be a better place to ask. Whether or not you need an initrd depends on whether or not drivers needed to mount the root filesystem are compiled as modules or built into the kernel. If they are all built in then you shouldn't really need an initrd. However distributions usually use it so that the kernel can be the same for all systems and simply load the correct modules. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/