On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> Thanks for the Xmas present! I've wanted to try it this way but never >> got up the energy to go do it all from scratch on my own. This should >> help me (and maybe Dale?) ;-) ;-) alot. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> >> > > > I'm waiting on eudev myself. I'm going to enjoy the heck out of typing > in "rm -rfv /boot/init*". Then I can remove it from grub.conf and it is > history. Hopefully for a LONG time too.
Sure, if eudev ever really happens. In the meantime, if you followed Neil's example here, you'd be doing rm -rfv init* today. Think about it! :-) Cheers, Mark
