[ale] SuSE 8.2, Building a kernel

[James P. Kinney III]

The bootsplash give that pretty screen without the ugly list of stuff
being started up. It's eyecandy.

All you may need to do is makemenuconfig again and compile in reiserfs
instead of having it as a module. If it is a module, the kernel must
load it to access the hard drive. Since the modules are _on_ the hard
drive it is required to to use a fake hard drive, thus initrd (initial
root device). My take is that unless things are really weird, anything I
need to get the box to run and find the hard drive, I'm going to always
be using anyway.

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:55, BruceG wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 17:42, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:22, BruceG wrote:
> > > Under SuSE, is that the /boot/vmlinuz.config file? If so - then yes, I
> > > have it. I copied /boot/vmlinuz.config to /usr/src/linux/.config - then
> > > went from there.
> >
> > As Mr. Kinney mentioned, make oldconfig will take you where you want to be,
> > unless you really are interested in a lightweight kernel. A smaller kernel
> > has little value on a reasonably modern system. It's guys like me who
> > insist on clinging to old clunkers that benefit the most from it.
> 
> On my first pass through I did do a make oldconfig, and defaulted on the new 
> options. But I got a kernel panic, no reiser support. I think that's because 
> I didn't do a mkinitrd - or whatever that is (more manual reading). So that's 
> when I decided to do a make menuconfig and look at the options to build them 
> in. 
> 
> On the SuSE kernel and the bootsplash. Is that required, or can I do a clean 
> kernel from kernel.org? What does the bootsplash provide?
> 
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