Hi, On Tue, May 23 2000 at 00:13 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
Did SuSE remove many pre-built kernels, somewhere on the way between 6.1 and 6.4? My friend tells me, and I also remember, that Yast1 once had prebuilt kernels for many SCSI devices or "usual" configurations. The selection of kernels in 6.4 is reduced to very few.
Newer SuSE releases use an initial ram disk (initrd), which all the drivers you need to access your root file system are loaded into. Prior to mounting the root file system the kernel loads the modules from the ram disk. The advantage is that one can even build drivers that are needed to access the root file system as modules -- there's no need to build a separate kernel for each supported SCSI controller. See the SuSE 6.4 manual -- it has much better explanation of the initrd concept Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/