For kernel hackers, it would be nice to have a way to invoke mkinitrd that makes an initrd suitable for booting with an all-compiled-in kernel that needs no modules loaded at boot time. Since the advent of udev or something or other a few releases back, it's impossible to boot a Fedora system without an initrd. What I do now is take the initrd created by a normal kernel rpm install, unpack it, remove the .ko files, edit it's /init to remove all the modprobe calls, and pack it up again into /boot/initrd-bzImage.img for use with hand-built kernels.
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Roland -- does this work with some of the changes we made in F10 for various things being built-in?
Well, I'm not quite sure what "does this work" means when the request was for a new way to run mkinitrd that there wasn't before. With mkinitrd-6.0.71-4.fc10.x86_64 I can manage to find some combination of --omit-{scsi,raid,lvm}-modules and --builtin={this,that} that makes it leave out any actual .ko files from the initrd and doesn't try to load any at boot, so it actually boots without hand-editting the initrd. However, I still have to pick some lie about the kernel version for the second command line argument, or it says "No modules available for kernel "foo"". I would like it to notice that it didn't want any modules anyway, and not insist on sticking some random /lib/modules/foo/modules.* files in there. It would also be nice to have a single option like --no-modules that makes it simple to figure out how to invoke the bugger correctly for this case.
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This is a mass edit of all mkinitrd bugs. Thanks for taking the time to file this bug report (and/or commenting on it). As you may have heard in Fedora 12 mkinitrd has been replaced by dracut. In Fedora 12 the mkinitrd package is still around as some programs depend on certain libraries it provides, but mkinitrd itself is no longer used. In Fedora 13 mkinitrd will be removed completely. This means that all work on initrd has stopped. Rather then keeping mkinitrd bugs open and giving false hope they might get fixed we are mass closing them, so as to clearly communicate that no more work will be done on mkinitrd. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you are using Fedora 11 and are experiencing a mkinitrd bug you cannot work around, please upgrade to Fedora 12. If you experience problems with the initrd in Fedora 12, please file a bug against dracut.