Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 01:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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.

Yeah, I usually do the same but with a bind mount, still it would be
grand if such things would not be needed.

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