On Sunday 13 November 2005 18:32, 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) Thanks for the explanation. I think the "dep" mode is to be preferred over the "most" mode in principle, so this would need to be configured by d-i. I very much doubt that mounting /sys in the chroot will be a problem. It has worked for me so far when installing 2.6.14 kernels in a chroot.
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