Re: 2.5.61 (Yes, there are still Alpha users out there. :-) )

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Wed, 2003-02-19 15:39:44 -0500, Bill Davidsen <[e-mail]>
wrote in message <[e-mail].=
com>:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-02-19 13:00:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen <[e-mail]>
> > > Be aware that for Redhat and SuSE distributions (and mandrake??) "make
> > > install" will fail because mkinitrd doesn't know about the new modules
> > > format.
> > >=20
> > > So you can give up using modules for anything you want to use to boot,
> >=20
> > Which is what I prefer - I personally don't like initrd and I don't use
> > it.
>=20
> If you have simple needs that's fine. I build for multiple groups of
> machines, and with a working mkinitrd I can just build a file for the boot
> controller on each type of machine, and only build a single kernel which
> will run anywhere with the proper initrd file.

I do it the other way around - I've collected a number of .config files
(one for each machine) which includes everything the machine needs to
*boot*. Any additional features (LVM/DM, filesystems, iptables, ...)
ships as modules. Things which require a distinct order are placed into
/etc/modules (Debian's list of modules which need to be loaded in given
order), all the rest is done via alias/install lines in
modules.conf/modprobe.conf.

This is, you do keep a machine's local config in its initrd, I do keep
it on the machine itself.

MfG, JBG

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