On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 06:30 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 're in luck. Bryan has been putting together a mkinitramfs script > for LFS that I think will try to land post-6.3 (whenever that > happens). Follow this thread: > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-June/059512.html >
Yes, that looks interesting. Is the stuff in that lfs-initramfs SVN repository usable yet, do you know? Also, do I correctly understand that in future, an initramfs will be a standard in the book, a core part to making an LFS system bootable? > On my system, I use klibc, but if you don't care about size too much, > just use glibc. It's easier to get started. My current initramfs is > ~1MB. I wouldn't care if that grew to accommodate glibc. So, what does the archive consist of? Is it just the binaries provided by klibc, plus udev binaries built using klcc? Anything else? > The way I "detect" the rootfs is by embedding fstab into the initramfs > and parsing it out if root= hasn't been passed on the kernel command > line. I'm not sure how that works when using syslinux. So what, fstab contains /dev/disk/by-label/BootDisk for the root entry? Yeah, that's another way, I suppose. I'm not so concerned about that part now though - I've found enough examples of how that's done. My main issue now is simply over what kind of binaries I need in the initramfs archive. The two links you've provided will hopefully answer that question. Simon.
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