What is the advantage whith RAM-disk support compiled into the kernel? Is this something I as an ordinary user can benefit from?
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Philipp Thomas
* Hanspeter Roth Bsag (roth@bsag.ch) [20000106 10:06]:
I can't find them in the 6.3 release on the Ftp-server. They aren't either on a FreeX Suse 6.3 demo CD.
The boot concept has changed with 6.3. Have a look at our online support database at http://sdb.suse.de/en/html , keyword initrd.
In a nutshell: starting from 6.3, our kernels use the initial ramdisk to load modules needed for booting. If you build your own kernel and want to use that feature, you have to compile the support for ramdisk and initial ramdisk into your kernel.
Add the line
initrd=/boot/initrd
to /etc/lilo.conf in the global section if it's not already there.
Edit /etc/rc.config and look for the line
INITRD_MODULES=
Add any needed module here, like
INITRD_MODULES="aic7xxx"
Save the file and call /sbin/mk_initrd, this will build the initrd. Call /sbin/lilo and at the next boot the modules will get loaded.
-- Philipp Thomas
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