On Monday, March 09, 2015 09:16:35 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 08.03.2015 23:20, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sunday, March 08, 2015 10:37:22 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> ... why my initrd is 21M is another question ..) > > > > Do you have proprietary video drivers in it? fglrx alone is 13 megs and if > > it's for plymouth it doesnt use them so it's just taking space. > > Seems like, yes. > > My dracut.conf was back to default (no options set) so it put everything > in there. > > I now set > > hostonly="yes" > > and the initrd went from 21M to ~7M ... nice! > > thanks! > > - > > I rebuilt all the kernels/initrds and now have these loader-entries: > > # ls -l loader/entries/ > total 2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 9. Mär 09:04 > e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.0-gentoo.conf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 9. Mär 09:01 > e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 311 9. Mär 09:06 > e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-4.0-rc2.conf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 329 8. Mär 17:34 stefan.conf > > And the 3.19.1 still does not get displayed at boot time! > > ;-)
Just a guess, but is it possible the length of the file is such that gummiboot thinks the 3.19.0 and 3.19.1 config file is the same (based on "right(filename,x)" with 'x' being the length up to ....3.19 ? I don't use gummiboot (or UEFI yet) to test myself. -- Joost
