Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:01:38 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 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.
A note on this is now added to the comparison/status matrix at
http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
- Jonas
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