KCLUG September 2007

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boot sequence discussion
by David Nicol 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

according to the initrd documentation, the purpose of initrd is to pre-load the correct modules in a more reliable way than modprobe. Mkinitrd flatly refuses to run against the nonmodular kernel I have built. I'm also a little bit surprised that things in /sbin aren't all statically linked any more; I think that requirement went away some time ago. There's this "initial ramdisk" thing now that looks really exciting: apparently you list files or directories and those things get cpio-ed up and bundled right with the bzImage, which strikes me as an excellent way to put together a pocket router or a good rescue disk image: Never mind a rescue filesystem, just copy this file to your boot partition and add a rescue option in grub.conf!

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Obsolete equipment for free
by Eric Johnson 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Is anyone interested in a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard with an Athlon 1800 (I think) and CPU fan? It was working yesterday before I put a better board into that case. -- Eric Johnson "Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." Saint Augustine

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fedora experts?
by David Nicol 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

I have been trying to get a recent, unpatched, kernel to work with a fedora system. I am able to get the kernel to boot but things seem to stop for want of an /init program in the root directory. init=/sbin/init does not seem to help. Who has a link to a current boot process explanation? not a howto, but a lecture, covering what is supposed to be happening at each point in a modern complex linux boot?

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KCLUG September 2007