[Gllug] Gnome3 on Fedora 16 (Again)

[Stuart Sears]

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
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