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 1HKB4O-0006HQ-Pb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1MAJ8OJ022614; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:19:08 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1MA8Bdx006773 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:08:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0A514C2E for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:08:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Pp0gXEYha0OF for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB36103FE for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:08:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:08:10 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45DCCAED.40709@xvalheru.org> <200702220113.56624.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20070222003724.M75749@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20070222003724.M75749@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 X-UID: 8 X-Length: 1743 X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1836569.o2SIBBKOYr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702220408.10187.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: dfd088d3-4fff-4de1-a598-ad7c7a72812c X-Archives-Hash: 647e7e7011421a333a2897f34c25f0e2 --nextPart1836569.o2SIBBKOYr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:39, pat wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote > > 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. > > ... 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. You really didn't need those extra two question marks. Anyway, if you'll compile the driver for your SATA controller (that runs=20 the=20 drive that holds '/') into the kernel and you don't have an exotic setup=20 (software RAID/LVM/EVMS), you won't need an initrd/initramfs. Depending on= =20 how your software RAID is set up you may not need a initrd/initramfs for=20 that=20 either. (Linux won't autostart my software RAID because I raid together=20 two=20 whole drives instead of multiple partitions.) =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! --nextPart1836569.o2SIBBKOYr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF3WuK55pqL7G1QFkRAskTAJ9ia42cInZ368AZh6JhY+hrEQ1+AQCfYqaC nuUNv3ujuWD9xMclQnubSIY= =IbbP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1836569.o2SIBBKOYr-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list