On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs > > on the building system. > > Right. The caveat to this is "dep" mode. The default mode for > initramfs-tools is to include all of the modules that you're likely > interested in booting with in the initramfs and detecting which ones to > use at boot time. If you ask it to detect which modules are needed, it > needs a valid sysfs tree to scan (although it is resiliant in that case > against module name changes)
Ah, interesting. Notice that in some case, the "most" mode will produce to huge initrd that are possibly not supported by the kernel/bootloader/firmware. This may be the case on some prep boxes on powerpc at least. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
