Kernel Configuration Question

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 22 December 2006 16:16, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/22/06, Mike Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> > Would someone please help me with what, I think, should be a fairly
> > simple kernel configuration question. I am attempting compile a new AMD64
> > kernel that will boot without using an initrd.img file.
>
> After attempting that very project recently, for a stripped-down
> kernel used for an "appliance" linux system at work,  my impression is
> that it's not possible to do this any more, at least on any system
> setup to use udev. mkinitrd not only supplies modules for  hardware,
> but also the initial /dev entries for console and other services
> required at boot time. Most (or rh only?) systems that use udev have
> an empy /dev structure, so the inital /dev entries have to be provided
> somehow before udev is started.
>
> You could try populating /dev with the required entries, but it's more
> work than I wanted to do, so I just used mkinitrd for my project. Even
> with sataand ide stuff builtin, I was not able to geta successful boot
> without mkinitrd.
>
> FYI, I wasn't even using LVM or RAID.
>
> HTH,

	Ah ha! I had forgotten all about udev. I'll have another system to play with 
next week and will have to try a simple install without LVM & RAID as an 
experiment and report back.

Thanks,

cmr

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