Re: [gentoo-user] Using "root=LABEL=xxxx" in grub.conf

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 9 Feb 2009, at 18:03, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Am Montag, 9. Februar 2009 17:51:24 schrieb Stroller:
>
>> I don't "like" initrd and the longer kernel
>> lines in grub.conf that they require.
>
> Errh, which longer lines in grub.conf?
>
> Here's mine, as an example:
>
> title=Gentoo Linux
>        kernel /vmlinux.gz realroot=/dev/evms/root vga=0x31B notsc
>
> Quite short and simple, isn't it? You don't even recognize that it  
> uses an
> initramfs (because it's embedded in the kernel itself).

Am I not correct in thinking that initramfs used to be / can be / was  
originally a separate file which goes in /boot and is described with  
an extra boot parameter?

I wasn't aware that you could embed the initramfs into the kernel  
itself - after reading Neil's message yesterday I looked up more about  
the initramfs, contemplated about the idea of doing so and decided  
"naw, you'll never be able to do that, it would make the kernel too  
big and take up too much memory".

I certainly can recognise that you're doing something bogus, because  
your kernel parameters use "realroot=" and not just "root="

Stroller.