On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:27 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My wish is that distros would just boot without requiring an initrd. I > > > know how to make them for redhat and debian based distros, but the > > > fact that you can't (easily) cross-build them makes it a very tedious > > > construct. > > > > all it takes for me on Fedora is to boot a modular distro kernel once, > > then copy the /dev to the real (persistent) /dev: > > > > mkdir /tmp2 > > mount /dev/sda1 /tmp2 > > cp -a /dev/* /tmp2/dev/ > > > > and from that point on a bzImage/vmlinuz can boot up on Fedora without > > any problems (as long as it has the right drivers built in), and the > > initrd line can be removed from grub.conf. > > Yeah, I usually do the same but with a bind mount, still it would be > grand if such things would not be needed.
Agreed. But it's not likely to be a priority - all the vendors want completely modular kernels. But now we see what Linus wants to do, perhaps we can try to be a bit more friendly toward that. It's not actually rocket science, after all. I was concerned that he wanted to use the modules in the initrd, but now I see Linus, and everyone else, just want to do what I also secretly do, and just not use an initrd. Isn't it funny. We all secretly hate using initrds ourselves :) Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
