On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 21:15 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote: > Am I chasing my tail ? I used to boot sparcs like this by passing an IP > and nfsroot as the kernel arguments, yet every example I find for fedora > uses an initrd image with modules in it. Isn't it simpler to waste a few > extra kbytes and have a kernel with most common ethernet and NFS > compiled in. > > I notice a diskless kernel and initrd image in fedora, but its seems to > be just an installer, the kernel boots on most things - but remove the > initrd and it doesn't stand alone ? The upstream kernel is moving towards removing these sorts of things. It's far easier to do them in userspace and just have everything modular. And with initramfs[1] if you, for some strange reason, can only load one file, you can cat the initramfs to the end of your kernel image. I'd recommend using a boot loader like pxelinux, though, to make things simpler. Jeremy [1] Note that mkinitrd now creates an initramfs image if you're on a 2.6 kernel, the name notwithstanding
