Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754449AbYAZD1I (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:27:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751720AbYAZD04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:26:56 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:45729 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751557AbYAZD0z (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:26:55 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linus Torvalds , Jon Masters , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:05:26 +0100." <20080126000526.GA24559@elte.hu> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080125071127.GA4860@kroah.com> <20080125185213.GA23475@suse.de> <479A3ED3.6020808@goop.org> <1201296027.32422.80.camel@perihelion> <479A5B72.6080701@goop.org> <1201299979.27573.11.camel@lappy> <20080126000526.GA24559@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1201317875_2846P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <7976.1201317875@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1201317875_2846P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:05:26 +0100, Ingo Molnar said: > 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. Tried something like that once - it didn't play nice with the fact that I have root-on-LVM, so you need an initrd to do the 'lvm vgchange -a' and get it online. --==_Exmh_1201317875_2846P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHmqfzcC3lWbTT17ARAmFoAKCaLkCegvjVuyVeUl/lMtK1azkXDwCgpL3v tbZsNRIpU3O9zQ83gIa1NkI= =MNIq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1201317875_2846P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/