Re: S3 test

[Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Frank,

> Is there anybody on this list, who has tried this initramfs yet and can give 
a
> short list of the steps involved? I have never before built a kernel for use
> with initram, but I would like to test it on my S3-broken laptop.

I'm planning to do it over the weekend (there was just too much to do
over the week). So far I have never used an initramfs myself, but I'm
rather experienced with initrd's. I guess you only need to specify a
line 'initrd = /path_to_initramfs/initramfs' in lilo, so something similar to
this:

# a rescue image that calls a shell in the initrd
image=/boot/linux-2.6.9-tc5
        label=2.6.9_rescue
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd-lvm-2.6.-amd64-lvm2_32_shell.gz

Recent kernels seem to first check if its an initramfs or initrd and I hope 
they will do the proper thing themselves. I'm not sure if the kernel needs 
ramdisk support, but I guess it needs it.

Better DON'T do it globally for all kernels, you might have problems to boot a 
normal kernel again ;-)


About grub I don't know how to use/configure it.


Hope it helps,
	Bernd


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