When 'make mrproper' is done, it should also remove the initramfs cpio file. I ran into this while doing test build on one machine, followed by make mrproper and rsync to a target machine. The build on the target machine would succeed but be unbootable because of the bad initramfs. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 04ca211552f7..954292695bf6 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1276,7 +1276,8 @@ MRPROPER_FILES += .config .config.old .version .old_version \ Module.symvers tags TAGS cscope* GPATH GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS \ certs/signing_key.pem certs/signing_key.priv certs/signing_key.x509 \ certs/x509.genkey certs/extra_certificates certs/signing_key.x509.keyid \ - certs/signing_key.x509.signer vmlinux-gdb.py + certs/signing_key.x509.signer vmlinux-gdb.py \ + usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz # clean - Delete most, but leave enough to build external modules # -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html