initrd
Dan
layman at straitsarea.com
Sun Oct 15 03:44:10 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 14:28 -0700, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed fedora onto everything I could get my hands on, but one
> of the recurring problems has been building custom initrds for each type
> of boot device. Does anybody know if it is possible to build a kernel
> with enough of the drivers built-in that the initrd is not required or
> does Fedora require it to boot?
> Thanks
I used to do this, you just need support for your filesystem i.e. ext3
compiled as part of the kernel instead of loaded as a module. Basically
setting up the config for a kernel before you compile it. Change the
filesystem support ext3,jfs,xfs... to Y instead of M. At least this
used to work.
Dan
>
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