On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it possible to build dracut for system/architecture which is different > from the host on which dracut is run? I have been interested in this before. However I decided it would be too much work to add this functionality to dracut. Instead I wrote my own initramfs generator which can do that by design. It is very basic compared to dracut (can only boot from physical disks), but I don't need anything else. If anyone is interested, take a look at http://code.google.com/p/ainitramfs/ . My generator, like dracut, takes all binaries from the existing system. In my opinion, building software is out of scope for an initramfs generator. If some software doesn't work as intended when used inside the initramfs, it should be updated to work, or, a seperate version should be built specifically for use in the initramfs (but by the package manager, not the generator). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
