On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 02:26:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > That's simply not true, at least not for Debian. If you actually use the > distro tools [1] the only assumptions are made at kernel *installation* > time, not at kernel build time. And that's why network-booted diskless clients and virtual guests have all sort of useless modules loaded; the HW where the kernel package was installed in this case is very different from the HW where the kernel will run. If only there were a switch to prohibit ever looking at the current machine's configuration when generating the initramfs... > I've been using initramfs-tools generated initrds for years without > problems, and that includes "root on LVM on LUKS encrypted partition" > and "root on LVM on RAID" setups. I've tried a couple of times to use a Debian-built initramfs with a custom built kernel. The kernel worked fine without an initramfs (it had everything built in), but it did not boot with the initramfs. Gabor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
