On December 26, 2003 11:51 am, Fraser Campbell wrote:

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doesn't ash (or any shell) require a kernel underneath? So why don't I just toss initrd and boot straight into the kernel I was going to use anyway?

Debian kernels are modular.

To answer your question, if you wish to do away with initrd then I don't see why you cannot. Just compile IDE/SCSI/whatever support directly into the kernel and you should be fine without an initrd. Have you looked into Debian's make-kpkg tool, it is trivial to compile your own Debian kernels (i.e. dpkg installable kernels) using it. -- Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> http://www.wehave.net/ Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml