> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Morphy Zhores > Subject: Help regarding initrd > Basically what will be inside a initrd compressed file and how it is > made. It is heard that kernel can be booted without initrd and what is > the necessity in using such a file. After loading the kernel is it Initrd is primarily used to reduce the size of the kernel image by avoiding the need to have all drivers necessary for booting compiled as inbuilt modules. It includes some driver modules that are needed to access some hardware and finally mount the real root-FS. If you wish to do away with initrd, just compile the kernel with in-built support for whatever Filesystem you have (reiserfs, ext2/3, etc) and in the boot menu, provide the root=/dev/<insert your harddrive node here> to let the kernel know the location of the root filesystem. This link should help you better understand the boot process: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linuxboot/ In my opinion, this should work for normal SCSI/IDE drives (works for me on a Suse10.0 on IDE) but I cannot be sure if you are booting via a SAN or some such. ./h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
