Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:05:26 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24
Message-ID: <20080126000526.GA24559@elte.hu>
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* 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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