[ATrpms-users] Re: Errors on Boot - To much hacking around

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 28 February 2005 12:20, Kick Molenveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks to me like you  compiled your own kernel and made a new initial
> ramdisk. Seems like you're trying to load the ivtv modules in the
> initial ramdisk.
>
> I believe you shouldn't do that, initrd is meant for modules that are
> needed for system startup, like filesystem modules. All other modules
> should be inserted at a later time.

Something is definitely hosed in his initrd, but there is one good reason to 
load ivtv in an initrd: if you want to watch your boot progress, starting as 
early as possible, when using the PVR-350's TV Out.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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