On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:27 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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> On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > * Peter Zijlstra  wrote:

> >

> > > My wish is that distros would just boot without requiring an initrd. I

> > > know how to make them for redhat and debian based distros, but the

> > > fact that you can't (easily) cross-build them makes it a very tedious

> > > construct.

> >

> > all it takes for me on Fedora is to boot a modular distro kernel once,

> > then copy the /dev to the real (persistent) /dev:

> >

> >    mkdir /tmp2

> >    mount /dev/sda1 /tmp2

> >    cp -a /dev/* /tmp2/dev/

> >

> > and from that point on a bzImage/vmlinuz can boot up on Fedora without

> > any problems (as long as it has the right drivers built in), and the

> > initrd line can be removed from grub.conf.

>

> Yeah, I usually do the same but with a bind mount, still it would be

> grand if such things would not be needed.

Agreed. But it's not likely to be a priority - all the vendors want

completely modular kernels. But now we see what Linus wants to do,

perhaps we can try to be a bit more friendly toward that. It's not

actually rocket science, after all. I was concerned that he wanted to

use the modules in the initrd, but now I see Linus, and everyone else,

just want to do what I also secretly do, and just not use an initrd.
Isn't it funny. We all secretly hate using initrds ourselves :)
Jon.
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