On 23.12.2014 09:30, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 12/22/14 23:56, poma wrote: >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/kde5/postlfs/initramfs.html >> "The only purpose of an initramfs is to mount the root filesystem." > > Yes, that was my thinking also, and that the nouveau module had been put > there for a reason, but apparently not :) > >> But in modern Linux distributions in the init-ram-fs-image are the giraffe, elephant and parrot, of course. > > So it seems :) > > Lars > Size and content of the init-ram-fs-image varies in relation to the expected functionality, or to put it simply, depend on certain module ex/in-clusion, but not limited to. man 8 dracut # ll -h /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | awk '{print $5}' 25M # lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep .ko | wc -l 415 # ll -h /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | awk '{print $5}' 4.7M # lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img | grep .ko | wc -l 1 Exemplary example - BIOS SATA_AHCI/MD-RAID1/EXT4 & S3/S4 (SUSPEND/HIBERNATE) /etc/dracut.conf.d/local.conf # PUT YOUR CONFIG IN files named *.conf in /etc/dracut.conf.d/ # /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf will override the settings in /etc/dracut.conf # SEE man dracut.conf(5) # Turn off all dracut modules unnecessary for local boot & system power sleep states omit_dracutmodules+=" bash biosdevname btrfs busybox cms convertfs crypt crypt-gpg crypt-loop dasd dasd_mod dasd_rules debug dm dmraid dmsquash-live drm ecryptfs fstab-sys i18n img-lib lvm kernel-modules modsign multipath plymouth pollcdrom qemu rescue selinux shutdown syslog systemd systemd-bootchart terminfo url-lib usrmount virtfs watchdog zfcp zfcp_rules " # Host-Only mode: Install only what is needed for booting the local host # instead of a generic host and generate host-specific configuration. # hostonly="{yes|no}" hostonly="yes" man 5 dracut.conf Perhaps someone understand all this, but giraffe, elephant and parrot are awesome and understood by all. :) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org