Re: How to make sure local udev rule gets into the initramfs ?

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On May 18, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2015-05-18 03:59 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
>> In order to fix some device naming problems, I’ve made a local rule in
>> /etc/udev/rules.d.
>> 
>> The new rule needs to be included in the initramfs, but I can’t figure
>> out the magic to make that happen.
> 
> If all else fails, read the documentation: have you looked at the
> HOOK SCRIPTS section in initramfs-tools(8) yet?
> 
>> For kernel modules, there’s /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, but I can’t
>> find anything similar for udev rules.
> 
> Write your own hook script that copies the rules file to the initramfs.
> The /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/dmsetup script should give you a
> starting point.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Sven

Thanks Sven!  I did read that section, but for some reason it didn’t occur to me that it was the answer I was looking for!  /-:

But now that you point it out, it’s obvious!  (-:

Enjoy!
Rick