[ale] any other Mosix user's out there; if yes, 'coupla questions.........

[Vernard Martin]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 09:44, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > The initial ramdisk is used to load individual modules that are not compiled
> > into the kernel at boot time. If you don't have any modules of this nature then
> > you don't need to use it.
> 
> I'm not clear on this. Are you saying that any kernel you are running
> that has any modules [i.e. not compiled in functions]
> should have an initrd entry in lilo.conf regarding that particular
> kernel ? 

If you need a module loaded a boot time that is not compiled into the
kernel, such as ext3 support, raid support, or scsi adapter support then
you can use the initial ramdisk to load that support. This is mainly
what it is used for but you can do all sorts of things with an initial
ramdisk.

Vernard
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