Linda Walsh wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Um, no one out there interested in pushing direct boot from hard disks as being required boot option?
You mean without an initrd? Not me, I'm afraid. Using an initrd works very well for me, without exception. -=--- People were very happy with the horse drawn carriage too, before the automobile came around.
I'm not saying initrd doesn't make people happy, but that it does is a bit strange. Does anyone know why it is better on a specific system than having a system boot off a hard disk directly?
My systems all have a stock openSUSE-kernel plus a local custom-built initrd (bult by mkinitrd). I would prefer not having to maintain a custom-built kernel per system, it's much easier+faster building the initrd with mkinitrd.
You boot off the HD directly and instead of a 20-40M initHD, you load a 3-6M kernel. It generally boots quite a bit faster when optimized
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