Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

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.

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