Re: Gnome3 on Fedora 16 (Again)
Stuart Sears <[email protected]>
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On 17/04/12 19:35, John Winters wrote: > On 17/04/12 19:22, Mick Farmer wrote: >> Dear GLLUGers, >> >> Two questions for those with more experience than me. >> >> 1. Do I need the initial ramdisk? How can I disable it? > > I'm not familiar with Fedora, but usually the purpose of an initial > ramdisk is to allow the use of a generic kernel with lots of loadable > modules. The initrd provides somewhere from which to load whatever > modules are needed by your particular hardware configuration. > > You can get rid of it by building your own kernel with all the required > drivers compiled in rather than being loaded as modules. > > The question arises though - why do you want to? I think it was just a misunderstanding of what the initrd is for. On any modern distro it is moderately insane to build your own kernel :) (outside of specialist edge cases and just pure curiosity) Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug