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From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: initramfs building
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:28:15 +0200
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On 05.07.2011 10:05, Prashant Batra (prbatra) wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> To build a initramfs image as part of kenel, the path to the build image
> is needed. 
> But if you start of a fresh kernel, you can not have the ramfs image
> built for that kernel.
> 
> So, the way is to build the kernel, install all the modules into
> /lib/modules/version folder, then build the initramfs image, include the
> path in kernel config and again build kernel image.
> 
> Is this correct or there is a better procedure?
> 
> Regards, 
> Prashant Batra

I do it the same way...