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. -- 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/
