From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750938AbVJQHM2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:12:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751062AbVJQHM2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:12:28 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.86]:50450 "EHLO anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbVJQHM1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:12:27 -0400 From: Felix Oxley To: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kconfig help text for RAM Disk & initrd Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:12:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200510170102.19717.lkml@oxley.org> <200510170037.37034.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200510170037.37034.rob@landley.net> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510170812.11590.lkml@oxley.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 17 October 2005 06:37, Rob Landley wrote: > Actually if this is a patch against 2.6, between ramfs (including initramfs) > and the ability to loopback mount files, I personally consider ramdisks > semi-obsolete. (This might be _why_ it says most normal users won't need > them.) Well, you may well know better than I, however on my Suse 10 box, initrd is used and I see only CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="" in my .config. I made this patch because omiting intrd caused my system to be unable to boot. regards, Felix