Quoting John Morris (jmor...@beau.org): > Nope, that negates one of the principle reasons to use an initramfs in > the first place. You assume the stock kernel can see the drive where > you intend to put this new partition; one of the big drivers of initrd > in the first place was exotic hardware, etc. so GRUB uses BIOS > (including extension ROMs on controller cards) to load both the kernel > and the initrd so it can take whatever steps are needed, i.e load the > right modules, start lvm, setup encrypted filesystem magic, etc. to make > the main drive/partitions/etc. visible. Your idea could deal with most > everything that didn't need a kernel module but totally fails at that > task.
Step 1. Compile a kernel that includes inline all key drivers including those needed to find the root filesystem. Step 2. Profit! That's the old-school method. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng