On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:47, you wrote: > > > > > > - initrd-tools needs to loose devfs usage. > > > > > BTW, isn't it time to switch to initramfs ? > > > > I saw that ubuntu use "initramfs-tools" and in debian we have "yaird" > > that I personally use since it hit sid to boot from lvm on a md array. > >
> My personal believe is that something like yaird will produce smaller > intram filesystems, and thus better suited to arches and subarches who have > actually trouble with bigger bloated initrds. This is sure but I think will be a really nice feature to have in etch, with initramfs-tools concept we could change hardware quite a few and expect our beloved debian to boot without problem, recognizing at startup that e.g. we changed the mainboard and cpu so the old sata disc is mounted on a sas controller and change the module to load without leaving a un-bootable sistem like out actual mkinitrd and it seems also yaird. > I am also a bit curious how initramfs behaves on the kernel wise, i mean i > understand and all that it is just a bunch of cpio archives which are > copied at the end of the kernel, but, taking the powerpc case for an > example, there is either a bootwrapper, like the arch/ppc/boot/openfirmware > stuff, or boot loaders, like yaboot, who know how to put the kernel and > initrd in ram, and then pass the right info to the kernel to find the > ramdisk back (passed as argument in r3/r4 if i remember well. I remebered booting linux from the destkop gui on in my Amiga times... > Now, initramfs is nothing more than a file organisation which is a bit > different for the initial ramdisk, or is there more to it, and the above > code path, for which i have seen no major change recently, will still work > ? The question is : we want to support nice things like EVMS at boot time? A tool for generating bootable initrd for evms is needed, it is targeted for etch evms support I hope. It seems that none our 3 tools supports it right now. -- ESC:wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]