-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:32 +0200 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps we can simplify this further: > * have list of alteratives built into the kernel installer, > * allow ramdisk= in an /etc file to override this, > * run them all, > * and the first one that has exit status 0 and a non-empty image as > output wins. > > The nice bit about this is that it should survive with odd version > requirements like: initrd-tools works for 2.6.12, but not in > combination with lvm. > > The only requirement is that generators do not lie about success in > their exit status, but no flags are needed. This works for yaird probing hardware at build time, but not tools like mkinitramfs generating a (more or less) global ramdisk image. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDWkUEn7DbMsAkQLgRAhHdAJ4hsDrQM45kHMHYMrMGjVaFJfReYwCeIejs 7FErNBy/J8zCW2iWqzDoNuU= =ad3w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
