First off, please forgive me if this is the wrong list for live-initramfs bugs.
I'm putting together an image for a low-power embedded device, and I have a
custom kernel that I've compiled with module support but with no modules
necessary to boot (i.e. no modules are needed in an initramfs). When the kernel
then boots with an initramfs, it wants to load modules.dep which is normally
created by mkinitramfs (and actually exists in the filesystem) if you actually
have modules included in your initramfs. When mkinitramfs doesn't include any
modules it never generates a modules.dep inside the initrd.
The solution to this is to simply touch modules.dep during the initramfs
creation process. In my build environment, I apply the following patch to
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs before recreating the initramfs:
--- mkinitramfs.orig 2008-06-04 16:12:12.000000000 +0000
+++ mkinitramfs 2008-06-04 16:12:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
for d in bin conf/conf.d etc lib/modules sbin scripts ${MODULESDIR}; do
mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}/${d}"
done
+touch "${DESTDIR}/${MODULESDIR}/modules.dep"
# MODULES=list case. Always honour.
for x in "${CONFDIR}/modules" /usr/share/initramfs-tools/modules.d/*; do
Sean Tobin
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