On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 14:28 -0700, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed fedora onto everything I could get my hands on, but one > of the recurring problems has been building custom initrds for each type > of boot device. Does anybody know if it is possible to build a kernel > with enough of the drivers built-in that the initrd is not required or > does Fedora require it to boot? > Thanks I used to do this, you just need support for your filesystem i.e. ext3 compiled as part of the kernel instead of loaded as a module. Basically setting up the config for a kernel before you compile it. Change the filesystem support ext3,jfs,xfs... to Y instead of M. At least this used to work. Dan >
