[CLUE-Tech] Debian Kernel Upgrade?

[David Anselmi]

"Jed S. Baer" wrote:

> Huh? My understanding is that the initrd is to be able to load the scsi
> module, to use to finish booting from a SCSI drive. If the system is IDE,
> you don't need that. That's an old memory on my part, but I do remember
> rebuilding the kernel without it, and not having problems. My boot drive
> is an IDE.

It depends which kernel package you use.  The 2.2.x that comes with the distro
(woody in my case) has ide built in.  The 2.4.18-k7 I loaded (and others in
the 2.4 series) uses an initrd.  IIRC it seemed to have ide built in also, but
initrd was still a dependency.

Dave