On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 05:18:02PM +0000, Beartooth wrote: > > It seems rhgb (which I have always detested, and routinely > removed from all machines) is to be replaced by plymouth........ ..... > So in F10B, "yum remove rhgb" turns into a command that removes > plymouth -- and takes mkinitrd along with it. > > So do ordinary users need mkinitrd?? Is it OK to let yum go ahead > and take it away? mkinitrd can save yer bacon, I do not understand what links rhgb to it. As others have pointed out just comment our the rhgb stuff etc. in /boot/grub/grub.conf. There are references to it in Makefiles for building new kernels. See also /sbin/weak-modules /sbin/installkernel and when and how they might uses it. > To the best of my knowledge and belief, I've never once used it, > in all the years since RH7; but I could make a long list of things I've > tried removing, only to be warned that something I can't do without > depends on them. Is mkinitrd one of those? Or not? How do I tell?? > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
