Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:32:29PM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On dim, 2005-11-13 at 12:46 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs
> > on the building system.
> 
> Right.  The caveat to this is "dep" mode.  The default mode for
> initramfs-tools is to include all of the modules that you're likely
> interested in booting with in the initramfs and detecting which ones to
> use at boot time.  If you ask it to detect which modules are needed, it
> needs a valid sysfs tree to scan (although it is resiliant in that case
> against module name changes)

Ah, interesting.

Notice that in some case, the "most" mode will produce to huge initrd that are
possibly not supported by the kernel/bootloader/firmware. This may be the case
on some prep boxes on powerpc at least.

Friendly,

Sven Luther