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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:00:36 -0800
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into
>> making my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating
>> hierarchies by hand and populating them with files and then compressing
>> it. All that drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably
>> is with the right tools which I haven't found.
>
> The right tools are included, and documented, with your kernel. Create a
> plain text config file detailing the contents of the initramfs and set
> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to the path top this file. That and an init
> script are all you need to have the initramfs automatically built with
> the current versions of all files when you compile your kernel.
>
> No messing around with copying files from the main filesystem or calling
> arcane incantations involving cpio, "make all" takes care of it all.
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
If you have one handy and it's not something huge (I don't think it is
but I don't really know) maybe you could post an example of what that
file looks like?
Thanks,
Mark