Hello Rob, +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote --+ | I've been building kernels, including with initramfs, and I don't have | dracut(8) installed? In today's git:
dracut(8) is a separate tool installed from package dracut. -> dracut-029-2.fc19.x86_64 -> https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/ | I've been messing with this area and maight be interested if I had any idea | what this guy was talking about? Kernel menuconfig selects gzip(1) as a default compression format for the initial ramdisk image. $ make menuconfig -> General setup -> Support initial ramdisk compressed using ... If instead of gzip(1), you select bzip2(1) or xz(1) format and build a new kernel, the initramfs image would still be compressed with gzip(1), because currently there is no way to pass the selected compression format to dracut(8) via $ make install. # file /boot/initramfs-3.11.0.img /boot/initramfs-3.11.0.img: LZMA compressed data, streamed It shows LZMA because I've patched /sbin/new-kernel-pkg to use $INITRD_COMPRESS variable. Thank you. -- Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team DB7A 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB C939 D048 7860 3655 602B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/