On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote:
> Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> > The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up
> > the system before the mounts of
> > / and /boot.    If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at
> > least the minimum required drivers are built-in)
> > then the initramfs isn't necessary.
> > 
> > Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely.
> > 
> > My grub.conf line is:
> >                 kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda2
> > 
> > pata_it821x.noraid=1
> > 
> > with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of
> > older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed.
> > 
> > IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command.  I haven't had
> > to use it so I could be wrong.
> 
> Update with new info.  With udev needing some things in /usr, and /var,
> you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / in the near future.
> Yea, real neat.  Some need it already just depends on what is installed
> from what I read.

Give us a link please Dale.

2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions and I never had 
to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be called 
this month).

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Regards,
Mick