On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:10:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs > > contents. Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kernel > > is running (or is there an official "hint" mechanism I could use)? > > Yes. Please try that. > > > [I thought it just included _every_ possible module on the ramfs -- > > judging from the enormous size of the installed kernel package, it seems > > like it!] > > :-) Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian kernel maintainer suggested it is no longer maintained). So now I'm exploring the initramfs-tools package. The first initrd was about *5 (five)* times bigger! I changed the config for including modules from 'most' to 'dep' and I got a much smaller (but still a bit bigger then yaird) initrd. Haven't tried to boot with it yet, though ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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