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On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into |
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>> making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating |
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>> hierarchies by hand and populating them with files and then compressing |
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>> it. All that drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably |
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>> is with the right tools which I haven't found. |
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> The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a |
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> plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set |
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> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to the path top this file. That and an init |
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> script are all you need to have the initramfs automatically built with |
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> the current versions of all files when you compile your kernel. |
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> No messing around with copying files from the main filesystem or calling |
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> arcane incantations involving cpio, "make all" takes care of it all. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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If you have one handy and it's not something huge (I don't think it is |
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but I don't really know) maybe you could post an example of what that |
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file looks like? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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