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Douglas J Hunley wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org |
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> <mailto:tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>> wrote: |
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> Is there any reason that the creation, use and maintenance of the |
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> initramfs couldn't be as simple as a checkbox in the kernel |
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> config, so that running 'make' after the kernel was configured |
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> would automatically build it? Then, all I'd have to do is move it |
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> into /boot along with the new kernel (just like I do now), with |
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> *nothing* else required, and the kernel would call it, and things |
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> would just work (as long as it was there and I didn't forget to |
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> copy it to /boot). |
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> This exists. You can built initramfs right into the kernel. I've been |
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> doing it here for quite some time. You just tell the kernel either: |
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> * where to find a filespec so it knows what to include in the initramfs |
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> * what directory contains everything you want in the initramfs |
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> and then the kernel builds is and attaches it to itself during 'make' |
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> It's actually pretty trivial |
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> -- |
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> Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley@×××××.com <mailto:doug.hunley@×××××.com>) |
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I tried that a while back. Followed a howto step by step, Gentoo one I |
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think, and it never worked, not even once. Trivial, not hardly. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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