From: johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Ignatich" <ignatich@gmail.com>,
reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: COMPILING AND CONFIGURING A NEW KERNEL.
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:02:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175994157.1894.1183513166@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12252.1175964174@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
> It is quite possible to build a kernel that has all the drivers built-in,
> but still require an initrd file. For instance, if you have a recent
> RedHat or Fedora system, '/' may very well be on an LVM partition, which
> means you need an initrd to do a 'lvm varyonvg' before mounting your real
> root filesystem will work....
Thanks Valdis,
Thats interesting, I didn't know that.
Do you know if deb-pkg and rpm-pkg take care of creating the initrd
automatically.
I seriously doubt they do.
Actually, I guess I only need to compile another kernel to find out.
John.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-08 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-05 22:42 REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent Ignatich
2007-04-06 0:05 ` Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER? I need help johnrobertbanks
2007-04-06 0:05 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-06 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-06 0:34 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-06 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-06 1:34 ` Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER johnrobertbanks
2007-04-06 3:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-06 4:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-06 4:32 ` johnrobertbanks
[not found] ` <20070406152119.GC4228@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
2007-04-07 2:47 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 3:30 ` Jan Harkes
2007-04-07 5:58 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 7:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-07 13:47 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 14:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-07 15:07 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 16:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-07 17:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-08 16:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-04-07 17:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-08 0:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-07 17:39 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-08 4:32 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-07 19:17 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-08 0:44 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-08 1:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-08 2:56 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-08 4:13 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-08 12:48 ` Jose Celestino
2007-04-08 13:21 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-08 14:14 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-08 17:03 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-08 18:18 ` Jeff Mahoney
2007-04-08 4:32 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-04-08 21:50 ` Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER - Christer Weinigel johnrobertbanks
2007-04-08 21:50 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-08 22:58 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-04-09 5:14 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-09 7:07 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-09 16:10 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-04-09 1:24 ` Christer Weinigel
2007-04-09 3:38 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-09 3:16 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-09 4:25 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-09 18:35 ` Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER Nate Diller
2007-04-08 4:06 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-08 9:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 2:52 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-09 3:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 4:40 ` David H. Lynch Jr
2007-04-09 4:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-07 1:26 ` COMPILING AND CONFIGURING A NEW KERNEL johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 1:26 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 7:45 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 16:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-08 1:11 ` johnrobertbanks
2007-04-07 16:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-08 1:02 ` johnrobertbanks [this message]
2007-04-08 1:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-04-07 12:51 ` REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent Laurent Riffard
2007-04-07 12:51 ` Laurent Riffard
2007-04-07 19:29 ` Edward Shishkin
2007-04-07 19:29 ` Edward Shishkin
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