Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> 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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