However, after finding the initrd docs (bad me for not liking something I
know so littly about).. It does seem to be rather good..
Perhaps there needs to be an initrd howto.. The kernel docs are good (but
are a *little* bit out of data), however, they do not cover the actualy
use of initrd.. I'd like to know how redhat uses them in rh5.. I cant find
it anyplace.. :)
I really started with Linux with v.9x.. The boot process has never changed
much.. I guess this is a bit of a jump and I'm being an idot and fighting
change..
Please excuse me..
Gregory Maxwell
On 4 Apr 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980403225030.22074A-100000@nightshade.ml.org>
> By author: <linker@nightshade.ml.org>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > People need enough PnP to be able to boot from a PNP ISA device without
> > relying on initrd tricks. (Yes, ISA PNP is both an abomination and an
> > oxy moron)
> >
>
> Why is that? initrd is an excellent and very general mechanism.
> There seems to be a lot of resistance to using it; unfortunately I
> feel too many Linux people want to take the path of least resistance
> which far too often ends up putting too many things in the kernel.
> This is a problem.
>
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