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On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim |
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> <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no> wrote: |
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> > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means |
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> > you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as far as I can |
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> > tell, all modules must be compiled in, and default command-line needs to |
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> > be set in the kernel config. |
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> You can have an initramfs, but it also has to be compiled in. Just as |
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> with the command line there is an option to include an initramfs in |
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> the kernel. I think it actually always builds with some kind of stub |
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> of one. This means that you can use modules. It is a pita though, |
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> since you'd need to configure your kernel without the initramfs, build |
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> everything, install your modules, build your initramfs, then change |
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> your config to include the initramfs, and THEN rebuild the kernel |
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> itself (which would be fast since most of it is already built), and |
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> run the final make install I guess. |
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Why not simply follow best practices when configuring your own kernel and put |
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all boot-necessary modules internal? |
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> Heaven help you if you need single-user mode or whatever. Though, I |
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> guess you could build a bunch of kernels with various command lines. |
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> They'd use a lot of space comparatively, but wouldn't actually take |
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> that long to build since again the makefile is reasonably efficient. |
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> Plus I always build kernels on a tmpfs anyway. |
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What about an init-script that checks for a specific key-press during boot and |
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switches to single-user mode when necessary? |
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> It generally makes sense to use a bootloader with EFI as a result. |
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It helps :) |
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