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From: Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: dracut
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:18:41 +0100
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>> 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.
>   
I succeeded in incorporating initramfs for a different architecture from 
the building host yesterday - by using kickstart. See my previous post 
on this very thread.