I am totally lost here

[Aaron Grewell]

You only need an initrd if the stuff you need to boot (ide or scsi
drivers, filesystems, etc) is not compiled into the kernel, but rather
as modules.  You put the modules in the initrd so the kernel can find
them at boot time.  Of course, when you're compiling your own kernel you
don't do that.  You know what you need to boot, and you compile it in. 
Or at least I do, anyway.  It's mostly useful for vendors since they
don't know what kind of hardware you have until install time.  They can
generate an initrd with the usual suspects, or the installer can figure
out what you need and make one on the fly.

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 09:30, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 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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