up and running with 2.6.18

up and running with 2.6.18

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Many thanks to all for the quick course on kernel compiles with initrd.

I'm running 2.6.18 now, and will see whether it helps me use the Intel 
high definition audio on the motherboard.

Chuck

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Re: up and running with 2.6.18

[Gregory Nowak]

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Chuck, please do let us know as well how you're getting along with an
initrd. I'd be interested in any observations on this from someone who
hasn't been using it, and then has started using it.

While I've been building deb packages out of my own kernel builds with
kernelpackage for some time now, I've decided long ago, even during my
slackware-only days, that an initrd seemed to be too much of a hassle,
and as far as I could tell, it didn't offer any benefits over the
regular way, other that the kernel binary could be made even smaller
through compiling the ide and root fs stuff as modules.

Greg


On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Many thanks to all for the quick course on kernel compiles with initrd.
> 
> I'm running 2.6.18 now, and will see whether it helps me use the Intel 
> high definition audio on the motherboard.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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Re: up and running with 2.6.18

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Greg,

I agree with you about the usefulness of the initrd, and that's why I 
have never mastered it before. In this case, I began with Shane's 
precompiled kernel package, which did use one, and I was looking for the 
simplest way to move up to 2.6.18. So at the moment, I am using 2.6.18 
with an initrd prepared by the procedure Shane posted here.

Not sure I see any difference so far. I am booting with speakup_quiet 
flag set on, and with speakup_synth set to ltlk. However, at the end of 
my rc.local I use speakwith to bring up a software synth. So I can start 
easily with or without my ltlk on the system. 

Maybe the initrd would permit configuring software speech much earlier 
in the boot process, but I have not messed with that.

Chuck

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