Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org > <mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org>> wrote: > > Is there any reason that the creation, use and maintenance of the > initramfs couldn't be as simple as a checkbox in the kernel > config, so that running 'make' after the kernel was configured > would automatically build it? Then, all I'd have to do is move it > into /boot along with the new kernel (just like I do now), with > *nothing* else required, and the kernel would call it, and things > would just work (as long as it was there and I didn't forget to > copy it to /boot). > > > This exists. You can built initramfs right into the kernel. I've been > doing it here for quite some time. You just tell the kernel either: > * where to find a filespec so it knows what to include in the initramfs > * what directory contains everything you want in the initramfs > > and then the kernel builds is and attaches it to itself during 'make' > > It's actually pretty trivial > > > -- > Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com <mailto:doug.hun...@gmail.com>) > Twitter: @hunleyd Web: > douglasjhunley.com <http://douglasjhunley.com> > G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
I tried that a while back. Followed a howto step by step, Gentoo one I think, and it never worked, not even once. Trivial, not hardly. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
