From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EVsmr-0008LM-El for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:38:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9TFb1n9020450; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:37:01 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9TFb10I012446 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:37:01 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F5AA2D18F0 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:37:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CCB2D180F for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:37:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTP id 8814183 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:37:00 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:36:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <436231EC.6080707@manchester.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <436231EC.6080707@manchester.ac.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510291736.59906.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 6f550414-1112-400d-b26c-aa1eaeaa7a00 X-Archives-Hash: 13849a89dbae11ea642035d582daa39a On Friday 28 October 2005 16:13, DR GM SEDDON wrote: > Dear list, > I have just started using Gentoo and up-to-now am impressed. I have > generated a kernel using 'genkernel' and the kernel is in /boot. > However, I do not have 'initrd' but 'initramfs'. is this a problem or > should I modify grub appropriately? > Gavin. I touched genkernel only once (when a friend used it, and it made a totally useless kernel) and from my experience it builds inadequate kernels. Plus, if you are not using raid, any initrd/initramfs just adds time and overhead to your booting. It is a waste of ressources. The only ones who 'need' it are distributions, who do want to use a 'one kernel fits all' approach and people with / on a raid/dm device. Just build a kernel by yourself. It is easy. make menuconfig mount /boot make all modules_install install and let grub.conf point to vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old. The install run will create a vmlinuz link to your latest kernel and a vmlinuz.old link to the one used. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list