From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 14:10:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Py689dh0dAYTGtK-TK5drpLrdtrWBOVBHOw5pw4Eu9rQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FCD0105.4000906@morlix.de>
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, morlix <morlix@morlix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anybody of you know how to get the grub2-mkconfig script to
> correctly detect initramfs and set the kernel parameter "root=" to
> /dev/ram0 or just don't set the parameter at all.
>
> I'm using genkernel and want to use my generated initramfs, but
> everytime grub2-mkconfig gets called it sets the kernel parameter root=
> to my root partition and then the initramfs won't get used.
>
> I think manually editing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and deleting the root=
> parameter and setting real_root isn't a good choice for long term.
The default scripts for grub2-mkconfig looks for a specific filename
for the initramfs, related to the kernel filename. If you look in
those scripts, you may be able to modify it to look at your filenames
instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-04 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-04 18:40 [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig morlix
2012-06-04 19:10 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-06-04 19:50 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-06-05 8:13 ` morlix
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