Re: [gentoo-dev] Genkernel hacking

[Doug Weimer]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:17, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

> The bootsplash image is added to ${TEMP}/initrd with
> 'cat ${BOOT_SPLASH_INITRD} >> ${TEMP}/initrd'
>
> However, at that point, ${TEMP}/initrd doesn't exist anymore, because of
> 'gzip -f -9 ${TEMP}/initrd' that runs shortly before it, and the code
> after adding bootsplash only references ${TEMP}/initrd.gz and not
> ${TEMP}/initrd ever again.

It appears that the initrd image with the bootsplash isn't gzip'd at
all. Unless I'm miss reading the code, gzip is only ran if the
bootsplash isn't used:
(from genkernel-1.8)
if [ $BOOTSPLASH = "yes" ]
        then
        ebegin "Adding Bootsplash Initrd"
        cat ${BOOT_SPLASH_INITRD} >> ${TEMP}/initrd || die
        cp -f ${TEMP}/initrd /boot/initrd-${KV}
        eend
        else
        gzip -f -9 ${TEMP}/initrd
        mv -f ${TEMP}/initrd.gz /boot/initrd-${KV}
        eend
fi

Notice the else before 'gzip ...', either way the result ends up in
initrd-${KV} which is used in buildpkg().

Doug


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