I am totally lost here

[Matthew Carpenter]

Speaking of Kernels (Sorry for responding so late, but it appears all my list mail has been "routed" incorrectly and I'm just now receiving it.  It's my own fault...  DOH!):

I just built 2.4.19 (using the COL311 2.4.13 SPEC file as a guide) and have run up against something I don't understand:

When do/don't you need an initrd?  Is this a Kernel config thing or is this something else?  I noticed that COL and SuSE don't boot unless I give them a valid initrd-2.4.1? file listed in Grub.  Can anyone explain this "initial RAMDisk?" (I'm assuming that's what it means)


begin  Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au>
(Thu, 8 Aug 2002 07:36:26 +1000)

> On Wednesday 07 August 2002 11:40 pm, Matthew Carpenter espoused with vigour:
> > Well then remove it :p
> >
> > rpm -e qt-3.0.4
> >
> > should only remove qt3
> 
> The thread got a bit lost here but all is fine now managed to do both at 
> laong last. Now having problems with kernel 2.5.30 in sound so an going to 
> try 28 and 29. I know that 2.5 is beta but it looks good however the new 
> configuration has blown out and is more complicated, but should work ok.
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