What's the Dealio with initrd, etcfstab, initrd.img inittab, vmlinuz, grub and parbreastions 522

Douglas Mayne

Ok - I knew that too ;) Thanks - I'm sure it'll help someone who's sick enough (a sado-masochist) to have read this far ;-) I just have no idea howto fire 'em up (wm) - do I run a script ?

Oh - before I forget, atleast it's 100MHz FSB (whoop-de-do, I know)

I see - thanks YES - my 1 User has almost no privileges (default) , I always need to sudo (or enter root + pbuttwd) to do anything meaningful (even get info from bash - like 'lspci -vv' or 'cfdisk'...IIRC, would give me "Command not found" - hence sudo heaven). I can't stand not being able to see "hidden" . lovelovex files!! in KDE - it wasn't that way with Knoppix (IIRC) -- even worse than MS -- it's an MS nightmare come true - aahh poop.

Perhaps a . in my Default $PATH statement ?

This is what I mean; most seem 40-50MB in size (I hope you can read the text)

Now look at my vmlinuz and initrd file sizes;

$ ls -alboot total 6228 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-02-15 01:56 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2006-02-19 10:41 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55809 2005-08-16 08:41 config-2.6.8-2-386 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-02-21 11:10 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4317184 2006-02-15 01:55 initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865767 2005-08-16 11:14 System.map-2.6.8-2-386 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1097554 2005-08-16 11:14 vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386

vmlinuz = 1.0MB initrd.image = 4.1MB

these are the files GRUB points to

You mean as in Slackware :p (j-k)...

Yeah, but I was always using 2.6 Knoppix = 2.6.7 Debian = 2.6.8

I'm almost certain it's PCMCIA related -- I understand you're not Debian-based (packaged ....whatever) - and I sincerely appreciate the time, and trying to help me -- how would one go about installing PCMCIA support ??

I understand (I think), but it always seems one's built stop the other -- but I can easily take the 'apm=' entry away...it just worked, so I left it (a whole 2-3 days now...whooopie) - atleast I can shutdown-restart-logout like a normal person...BTW - most ACPI (and related) entries in 'dmesg' look quite kosher.

Okee-dokee then ;-) -- that sounds good (I think)

I see - thanks anyway

hey now - I know what that means (*Notification* - 'heads-up') lol...thanks

(doh!)

You da man: for even replying with some guidance - I KNOW it's been painful (ROFL!)...but Thank You very much!

Ok Doug - see ya 'round Ciao