-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:01:38 +0100 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run > > > without sysfs on the building system. > > > > Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for > > initramfs-tools is to include all of the modules that you're likely > > interested in booting with in the initramfs and detecting which > > ones to use at boot time. If you ask it to detect which modules > > are needed, it needs a valid sysfs tree to scan (although it is > > resiliant in that case against module name changes) > > Ah, interesting. > > Notice that in some case, the "most" mode will produce to huge initrd > that are possibly not supported by the kernel/bootloader/firmware. > This may be the case on some prep boxes on powerpc at least. A note on this is now added to the comparison/status matrix at http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDd5SLn7DbMsAkQLgRAiOYAKCIDLARl3tQG2my0uSy/Vd6ylG7AACgjupW VcRnV7968bf+vefMHghwY3E= =eHb/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
