Initial RAMDisk ... Grrr! Sauron the Mad Dec 3, 2000 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

But we need to choose support for initial ramdisk, loadable modules and other necessary options. If we use the serial console port, choose serial console support. If we have a piece of hardware we ...

For those not in the know, the initrd is the "initial RAM disk" and it allows Linux distributions to boot on different hardware without needing a custom kernel for every individual machine.