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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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COBOL: (n.) an old computer language, designed to be read and not |
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run. Unfortunately, it is often run anyway. |
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