From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ???
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:36:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070223093640.4e1a5329@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702230811.07486.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:11:07 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > It does, I have a system that boots 2.6.20 using an initrd. It works
> > fine and I don't feel inclined to get involved in initramfs voodoo
> > just to change an already working system
>
> What is that "voodoo" you're talking about. I did boot my /-on-EVMS
> system with an initrd for years, only to find out that initramfs is so
> much easier to set up. If there's voodoo, it's in initrd.
If I was starting from scratch, I'd use initramfs, but the initrd is
already working and requires zero effort - if it ain't broke...
--
Neil Bothwick
Always be sincere even if you don't mean it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-21 22:42 [gentoo-user] ramfs - is it necessary ??? pat
2007-02-21 23:16 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:08 ` pat
2007-02-22 0:25 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:41 ` pat
2007-02-22 10:07 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 10:56 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-22 11:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 18:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-23 7:11 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-02-23 9:36 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-02-22 0:13 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 0:29 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 0:39 ` pat
2007-02-22 1:50 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[not found] ` <200702220958.49233.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 10:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-22 7:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-22 8:14 ` Neil Bothwick
[not found] ` <200702221108.31090.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
2007-02-22 9:18 ` pat
[not found] ` <200702220411.04512.bss03@volumehost.net>
2007-02-22 12:02 ` pat
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