On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 08:14:34PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > > > Imagine a case in which you, the user, would like to boot from a live > > image, e.g. for rescue purposes, only to find out that your live CD > > does not recognise your disk controller, or your graphic adapter, or > > your ethernet card. > > [I already strongly suspected the below but didn't want to write about > it until I had a chance to test] > > THe initramfs doesn't need to include all the modules belonging to the > kernel, just those which are needed to mount the real root filesystem > (containing the remaining driver modules). This would mean all > filesystems and storage device drivers you want to support but, eg, no > networking modules (nfsroot sounds like an implausible feature for a > live image).
And in fact, I have stripped most of the unnecessary modules and libraries from the initramfs, and I am now moving on to remove all the unnecessary utilities. > > NB: Please CC me when replying. For some reason, I'm "reverse moderated" > --- I can still send message to the list but don't get them anymore. I suspect that you have reverse-moderated yourself :) I always include your address in the replies, but I keep receiving a lot of bounces from your mail-server (452), which seems to feel some deep disgust for the stuff sent from my mail server. It could be that your mail-server is convinced that the mail-server on which this list is hosted is as bad as mine :) In my case the problem is the lack of reverse-DNS, but atm I have to live with that. Might greylisting be an option in your case? I have been using greylisting a lot, and it reduces the spam by 90%-95%, without filtering domains. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
