On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:12 AM, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means >> > you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as far as I can >> > tell, all modules must be compiled in, and default command-line needs to >> > be set in the kernel config. >> >> You can have an initramfs, but it also has to be compiled in. Just as >> with the command line there is an option to include an initramfs in >> the kernel. I think it actually always builds with some kind of stub >> of one. This means that you can use modules. It is a pita though, >> since you'd need to configure your kernel without the initramfs, build >> everything, install your modules, build your initramfs, then change >> your config to include the initramfs, and THEN rebuild the kernel >> itself (which would be fast since most of it is already built), and >> run the final make install I guess. > > Why not simply follow best practices when configuring your own kernel and put > all boot-necessary modules internal? >
I'd say that best practice is to use a boot manager, modular kernel, and initramfs. Then if something changes you don't need to rebuild everything, and you can skip the step of trying to figure out everything you need to boot your system (and likely including too much in the process). -- Rich
