Kernel Configuration Question

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

I have no idea what Collins is talking about.  I've built many kernels 
without an initrd in FC5 & FC6 and they booted just fine.

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