MODULES=dep ------------ The size of the generated initramfs of initramfs-tools in the case of MODULES=dep improved since 0.90a version. i'd like to get more tester feedback on that setting. -> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf WARNING: The ide subsys has a funky /sys usage where the sysfs modules string does not match the modules name. There the sysfs walk is presumed to fail (PIIX_IDE != piix). This will go away soon after the migration to pata.
For initramfs debugging see http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug BUSYBOX=n --------- This setting boots fine since 0.90a and klibc 1.5.6 on /dev/sdaX root (UUID, LABEL usage included). 0.91 moves busybox from Depends to Recommends. allowing package enforced BUSYBOX=n keep in mind that in the case of a boot failure your recovery tools in that situation will be very limited to echo, cat, dmesg, uname, fstype (see ls /usr/lib/klibc/bin/ ). I'd ask the d-i folks to queue busybox before i-t in the base install as it is needed for any but unusual installations. also i'll send patches out to different initramfs boot script to enforce BUSYBOX=y as they might rely on busybox tools (sed, awk, grep, tr, ..). klibc ---- Next steps on a real small initramfs for embedded usage is udev-klibc (compiles and boots fine) and a m-i-t against klibc. klibc got a stdio branch so if others want to play^W compile against klibc that might be the better start to hack on (lvm2, mdadm or even busybox comes to the mind) just install libklic-dev and use make CC=klcc hpa is active, patches are quickly reviewed and merged upstream. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git Mailing list: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/klibc The klibc linux-libc-dev build-dep change went well (quickly fixed mips+ia64), but gcc-4.2 seems to hit on sparc. that will need attention by sparc porters once the kernel sparc issues are solved. #440721 initramfs races --------------- Push usage of scsi_wait_scan upstream (thanks a lot willy for the work). already implemented in qlogic, aic94xx, lpfc and fusion. The udev boot script just needs to modprobe it. Patches for ata aka sata and pata are in preparation. The suse bootscripts wait up to some seconds for /dev/mapper/control to appear. that seems sensible and easy to do in the debian lvm2 boot script too. dkt --- Once dkt [1] is in place linux-images will ship parts of the modules prebuild as initramfs in order to reduce build time of the default initramfs. Also grub2 allows multiple initramfs files usage. The dkt will also allow to remove the corresponding initramfs sha1sum's in /var/lib/initramfs-tools on linux-image removal. git repo -------- initramfs repository moved some time ago to git [2]: git clone git://git.debian.org/git/kernel/initramfs-tools.git A special thanks goes to mika for test coverage [3] on grml. happy hacking -- maks [1] http://multibuild.org/documentation/dkt [2] http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/blog/2007/04/10#bzr_to_git [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01388.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
