On Monday 17 November 2003 18:59, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > ... cramfs
> >
> > > > > > > Should I make it an option in mkinitrd ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I guess yes. But this is compatibility problem. It is not
> > > > > > supported on vanilla kernel so you have to detect patched kernel
> > > > > > somehow. And how are you going to do it? You will get a flood of
> > > > > > "bug reports" from users who compiled their own kernels (vanilla
> > > > > > ones or whatever) and cannot load initrd.
> > > > >
> > > > > just check for /mdk/ and ! /custom/ in uname -r output
> > > >
> > > > that is still just wild guess :(
> > >
> > > but it'll work...
> > > grep /proc/filesystems else
> >
> > not working. you can build initrd for 2.6 under 2.4 or other way
> > round. or even out of miniroot.
>
> what about
>
> grep cramfs /boot/System.map-[KVER] ?

at least make it depend on CONFIG_CRAMFS_INITRD. it is not that crmafs is 
available but that it is used for initrd.

but if it is really read-only, our initrd needs some tweaking indeed

> have you got my last mails with the modified mkbuild.pl & co ?

yes

> have you tried them ?

no :)


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