Good ${greeting_time}, Andrew!

22 Feb 2023 00:25:34, you wrote to All:

 AA> Anyone else have a problem with the LFS section on creating an
 AA> initrd?

Do you still use floppies? If not, you don't need the initrd at all.

Keeping the modules for disk controllers that don't need external firmware compiled into the kernel is generally a wise idea for several good reasons. Support for everything else may be built as modules and loaded from the /lib/modules during the userspace initialization.


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