Re: tlug: Kernel rebuild problem

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

> Scott Stone wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:
> > 
> > > dd if=/path-to-kernel of=/dev/fd0
> > > rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/root-partition
> > > rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
> > >
> > > At least, that's all it took until my friends at RedHat popularized that
> > > damned initrd.
> > 
> > that way above still works, unless you NEED an initrd, which is only if
> > you boot from SCSI.
> 
> ?? I just SCSI booted without an initrd my 2.0.35 kernel (I think... I'm
> still new to all this).

well, if you compiled the scsi support directly into the kernel, then you
don't need an initrd anymore.  I should have said, you need an initrd if
you're booting from SCSI and using a completely modular kernel.

> 
> Neil.
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