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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HK289-0006gF-63 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:48:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1M0k1Xh002802; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:46:01 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [193.86.238.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1M0djgx028171 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:39:45 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([193.86.238.3]:42559 helo=xvalheru.org) id 1HK1zt-0001zU-6N for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:39:45 +0100 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:39:45 +0100 Message-Id: <20070222003724.M75749@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <200702220113.56624.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <45DCCAED.40709@xvalheru.org> <200702220113.56624.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20061019 X-OriginatingIP: 62.245.66.7 (pat@xvalheru.org) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 076f1496-2125-4c4a-bf9c-f60ca3068095 X-Archives-Hash: 146ee3dab43e10317e7ef6291bb3bb34 On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > On Mittwoch, 21. Februar 2007, pat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have question about ramfs and if it is necessary. I have notebook with > > SATA drive. I generate kernel with genkernel and it generates initramfs > > file too. My question is if this is realy necessary and if not, what I have > > to do. And if it is necessary where I can find good documentation (samples, > > explanation, etc.). > > > > And next question is: hat is difference between ramfs and initrd ??? Is it > > the same thing or not ... ??? > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Pat > > you don't need initrd. You don't need initramfs. You don't need to > use genkernel (IMHO genkernel is evil). And you don't need ramfs. > > initrd/initramfs is mostly for distributions who want to compile > everything as module, people with strange settings (like some kind > of raid), or people too stupid to build their own kernel. If you > build your kernel and build everything you need to boot into it, you > can live without that crap. > ... so the initramfs is not necessary for the SATA drive when it is not a module ??? Because I think I need it because of the SATA drive. Thanks Pat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list