John Andersen wrote:
On 5/19/2013 11:54 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
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.
But that's not even part of the argument here.
The discussion is WHY is mkinitrd even necessary, and not using initrd does not force you to build a custom built kernel.
Okay, then I probably don't understand what we're talking about. Can someone please enlighten me?
Initrd IS a custom-built kernel. So what you want to avoid, is already being done for you.
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