From: deletethis@invalid.lan   
      
   On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:59:50 +1000, noel wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:55:11 -0500, Gamgee wrote:   
   >   
   >> To: Marco Moock -=> Marco Moock wrote to alt.os.linux.slackware <=-   
   >>   
   >>  MM> From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.slackware   
   >>   
   >>  MM> On 17.07.2025 16:24 Uhr Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   >>   
   >>  > if CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y you have a huge kernel on Slackware 15.0, with a   
   >>  > generic kernel it is instead "m".   
   >>   
   >>  MM> Is y, so I booted huge. Do I need initrd at all?   
   >>   
   >> No, you do not.   
   >>   
   >>  MM> What happens if I let it generate it?   
   >>   
   >> Not sure, but I wouldn't do it.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > it shouldnt do anything, unless you add the initrd= /boot/initrd.gz to   
   > your image in lilo.conf... cant comment on grub.   
      
      
   looks like I was right, we still have the initial default initrd image   
   from when we installed this particular machine in 15.0 and it is not nor   
   has ever been used, always use huge kernels. we use to strip em down in a   
   custom, but found it makes no difference to performance for past 15   
   years  so dont bother anymore and use default huge, which I think is just   
   the default kernel-generic in -current now   
      
      
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       38 Jan 27  2022 README.initrd -> /usr/doc/   
   mkinitrd-1.4.11/README.initrd   
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       24 Jul 16 16:27 System.map -> System.map-   
   huge-5.15.188   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root  6940344 Jul 15 08:12 System.map-huge-5.15.188   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root   148480 Jul 15 04:18 amd-ucode.img   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root      512 Nov 21  2020 boot.0800   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root      167 Nov 21  2020 boot_message.txt   
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       24 Jul 16 16:27 config -> config-   
   huge-5.15.188.x64   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root   239739 Jul 15 07:54 config-huge-5.15.188.x64   
   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   216219 Jun 13  2018 elilo-ia32.efi*   
   -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   238531 Jun 13  2018 elilo-x86_64.efi*   
   *drwxr-xr-x 14 root root     4096 Nov 21  2020 initrd-tree/   <----------   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root  8323602 Nov 21  2020 initrd.gz      <----------*   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root    22578 Feb 13  2021 inside.bmp   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root      432 Feb 13  2021 inside.dat   
   -rw-------  1 root root    32768 Jul 16 16:44 map   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root     6878 Feb 13  2021 onlyblue.bmp   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root      424 Feb 13  2021 onlyblue.dat   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root    15634 Mar 27  2011 slack.bmp   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root    33192 Feb 13  2021 tuxlogo.bmp   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root      423 Feb 13  2021 tuxlogo.dat   
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       21 Jul 16 16:27 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-   
   huge-5.15.188   
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       21 Jul 16 16:27 vmlinuz-huge -> vmlinuz-   
   huge-5.15.188   
   -rw-r--r--  1 root root 11685312 Jul 15 08:12 vmlinuz-huge-5.15.188   
      
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