On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:27:12 +0100, Olive wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Slackware which boot fine with the huge kernel. I am
> willing to boot with the generic kernel with an initrd but I do not know
> what modules I need to put in the initrd. With the huge kernel, my hard
> drive is seen as /dev/sda (this is a SATA drive) and my root filesystem
> is on ext3.
>
> Olive

Any kernel modules that are needed to read your hard drive and root
partition are the only ones that need be in your initrd. At that point
the kernel has what it needs to mount and read /lib/modules, which should
always be on your root partition and not on another mount. /usr /home /
opt, and etc, are NOT required to be read at that point in boot.

If you built the required modules into the kernel rather than as modules,
you will not need an initrd at all.

- Paul

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:10:07 +0000, draeath wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:27:12 +0100, Olive wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have installed Slackware which boot fine with the huge kernel. I am
>> willing to boot with the generic kernel with an initrd but I do not
>> know what modules I need to put in the initrd. With the huge kernel, my
>> hard drive is seen as /dev/sda (this is a SATA drive) and my root
>> filesystem is on ext3.
>>
>> Olive
>
> Any kernel modules that are needed to read your hard drive and root
> partition are the only ones that need be in your initrd. At that point
> the kernel has what it needs to mount and read /lib/modules, which
> should always be on your root partition and not on another mount. /usr
> /home / opt, and etc, are NOT required to be read at that point in boot.
>
> If you built the required modules into the kernel rather than as
> modules, you will not need an initrd at all.
>
> - Paul

I should clarify something... "/usr /home /opt, and etc" does not
include /etc - that looked a bit ambiguous up there...

draeath wrote:



> If you built the required modules into the kernel rather than as modules,
> you will not need an initrd at all.

THat's what I did, took the modular kernel source config, selected the
relevent drivers to be built into the kernel and ignored initrd.

Pete

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