On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. > > Create a plain text config file detailing the contents of the > > initramfs and set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to the path top this file. > > That and an init script are all you need to have the initramfs > > automatically built with the current versions of all files when you > > compile your kernel.
> If you have one handy and it's not something huge (I don't think it is > but I don't really know) maybe you could post an example of what that > file looks like? This is the file I use on a system that has / on a LUKS filesystem on top of LVM. The format is documented in the kernel docs at Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt dir /bin 755 0 0 file /bin/busybox /bin/busybox 755 0 0 slink /bin/sh busybox 777 0 0 dir /realroot 755 0 0 dir /etc 755 0 0 dir /proc 755 0 0 dir /sys 755 0 0 dir /sbin 755 0 0 file /sbin/lvm.static /sbin/lvm.static 755 0 0 #file /sbin/mdadm /sbin/mdadm 755 0 0 file /sbin/cryptsetup /sbin/cryptsetup 755 0 0 file /sbin/e2fsck /sbin/e2fsck 755 0 0 dir /lib 755 0 0 file /lib/libext2fs.so /usr/lib64/libext2fs.so 755 0 0 dir /dev 755 0 0 nod /dev/console 600 0 0 c 5 1 nod /dev/null 666 0 0 c 1 3 nod /dev/tty 666 0 0 c 5 0 nod /dev/urandom 666 0 0 c 1 9 file /init /usr/src/init.sh 755 0 0 -- Neil Bothwick Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
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