Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kconfig help text for RAM Disk & initrd

From: Felix Oxley
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 02:13:20 EST


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

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