[ale] Gentoo Linux: initrd

[Keith Hopkins]

Michael Hirsch wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:56, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> 
>>Hey Ya'll,
>>
>>  I'm almost finished with my first Gentoo Linux install, trying to put some more pep into several aging K6-II/500 machines.
>>
>>I'm completed the kernel and module compile, but I still need to make a initrd and setup grub (oh, were forth art thou LILO?) before I can ever reboot the system.
>>
>>Does Gentoo have a handy utility to create/setup the initrd? (like mk_initrd in SuSE)
> 
> 
> Ordinarily I wouldn't expect you to need this.  Since the whole point of
> gentoo is to customize your install for you exact hardware, I would
> expect that your kernel would have any devices required for boot in it. 
> initrd is only needed for the "one size fits all" type of kernels used
> by normal distributions.
> 
> Is there a particular reason you left some essential module out of your
> kernel?

Habbit, I would say is the largest factor (working with SuSE the most).  The ability to rmmod/insmod the driver for a hung device is compelling (although not practical for "essential" modules).  Reduced kernel size, since I have in tha past before I switched to using modules, built kernels too large to boot!  Is that still a problem?

So, I guess you are all saying, "go ahead and build it in the kernel!"  OK.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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