mkinitrd on missing list?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 17 March 2013 05:19:18 Ernest Doub did opine:

> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 March 2013 00:57:09 Ernest Doub did opine:
[...]
> > Chuckle.:)  Point being, if you have the tools, you may as well use
> > them. Besides, the carbide will strip the teeth off those files. 
> > Waste of files.
> > 
> > I think it also helps to keep my aging brain exercised & working.
> > 
> > Now, to get back on topic, sorta, a question:
> > 
> > What drivers are between an ext4 file system, and a 4 pack of
> > terrabyte drives hooked to an NVidia MCP-55 sata interface?  ASUS
> > M2N-SLI Deluxe mb.
> > 
> > I am trying to build a newer kernel, but it gets 4.9 secs into the
> > boot, hangs for 30 secs, and says it cannot find the / partition by
> > its UUID & drops to a busybox shell.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> Comment and question:
> Was thinking of regular garden variety carbon steel [flame harden and
> quench after shaping] not tool steel.

Tool steel and carbide are 2 diff critters.  Tool steel that hasn't been 
hardened is actually quite easy to machine but can be oil quenched to about 
rockwell 62 from the right temp, which is quite bright.  In cutting tools, 
carbide comes into its own when the tool tip is dull red.  Regular tool 
steel is long out of the cutting business when the swarf coming off has any 
color at all.  Tool steel can be sharper, cutting a finer chip, but wears 
faster.

> Wondering if there is a reason that the hard drive with the system on it
> can't be plugged directly into the motherboard so that the bootstrap and
> initialization won't have to deal with any extra drivers or hardware.
> Seems to me would make for a slightly faster bootup that is also easier
> to troubleshoot ~when~ it goes wahoonie shaped.

This is directly on the motherboard.  It does have a PATA socket, just one 
that doesn't recognize an 80 pin cable.  So its a 33 mb/sec connection 
whereas the SATA connectors are 3Gb/sec connections.  It's 7 sata sockets 
can be arranged to be a 5 wide raid, but I'm setup as individual drives, 
with a SATA optical writer plugged into the 5th connector.

> It has been documented here many times that the above described makes
> for a more robust system.

This has worked well for going on 5 years now.  I just have to hold my 
mouth right while plucking the magic twanger.

This would be an easier project if we had a utility that could dismantle an 
existing kernel and give us a list of all the modules that are actually in 
it.  But in nearly 15 years of running linux, I've not been made aware of 
such a tool.  Perhaps there is a swinfo, works like hwinfo?  But synaptic 
says there is not.

Thanks Ed
> On the Mojave

Cheers, Gene
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