Re: [PATCH] Don't rebuild the initramfs with dracut

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On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:11:15 pm Jeremy Katz wrote:
> A dracut based initramfs should be perfectly good for the purposes
> of booting the post-live system as well.  So don't recreate it
> ---
>  livecd.py |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/livecd.py b/livecd.py
> index 7efcd90..bfbe2ba 100644
> --- a/livecd.py
> +++ b/livecd.py
> @@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ class LiveCDCopyBackend(backend.AnacondaBackend):
>          # rebuild the initrd(s)
>          vers = self.kernelVersionList(anaconda.rootPath)
>          for (n, arch, tag) in vers:
> -            packages.recreateInitrd(n, anaconda.rootPath)
> +            # with dracut, we don't really need to recreate the initrds
> +            if not os.path.exists("%s/boot/initrd-generic-%s.img"
> %(anaconda.rootPath, n)): +                packages.recreateInitrd(n,
> anaconda.rootPath)
>
>      def writeConfiguration(self):
>          pass
at least on sparc we still need to create a stripped down initrd for tftp 
installs where we need to have the initrd and kernel under 10mb 

Dennis

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