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DateSat, 26 Jan 2008 01:05:26 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> My wish is that distros would just boot without requiring an initrd. I
> know how to make them for redhat and debian based distros, but the
> fact that you can't (easily) cross-build them makes it a very tedious
> construct.

all it takes for me on Fedora is to boot a modular distro kernel once,
then copy the /dev to the real (persistent) /dev:

mkdir /tmp2
mount /dev/sda1 /tmp2
cp -a /dev/* /tmp2/dev/
and from that point on a bzImage/vmlinuz can boot up on Fedora without
any problems (as long as it has the right drivers built in), and the
initrd line can be removed from grub.conf.

Ingo


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