Hi Praj,

Thank you for comment.
OK. I understand about cannnot include initramfs tools in MIC as Option (1).
If moblin2 isn't fixed spec of userspace boot process, I'd like to create a 
initramfs-tools RPM package.

Could Intel enginners tell me more comments?

Thanks,

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  Mitsutaka Amano
  MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION
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Prajwal Mohan wrote:
> Hi Mitsutaka,
> The problem we currently have with the way we generate initrd for yum
> based platforms is that we don't exit initrd. We just exec into the root
> file system. As you pointed out we do not have initramfs tools on yum
> platforms. We cannot include initramfs tools in MIC. We would have to
> have that in the project chroot to be able to create images. Option (1)
> does not seem to be feasible. If we do decide to have initramfs, we
> would have to have the package in moblin2 repository.
>
> Thanks,
> Praj
>
>
> Mitsutaka Amano wrote:
>   
>> Dear Praj, and mobliners
>>
>> I thought about a better way to create initrd on yum based platforms.
>> There is a simple way. Yum base platform uses a initramfs.
>> In any case. initramfs-tools(mkinitramfs) is simple and fiexible.
>> Long time ago I tried to create a Live CD on CentOS Base and I used 
>> initramfs-tools at that time.
>> initramfs-tools is ported to yum based system from Ubuntu package.
>> initramfs-tools have many script files. so I could create it easy :-)
>>
>> As you know, Yum base system(Fedora, CentOS etc) don't have initramfs-tools.
>> So I think two way to haw to handle a initarmfs scirpts.
>>
>> 1. Including in MIC
>>    It needs to test to both *Ubuntu* and Yum based platforms.
>>    It's easy to sync platforms/common-yum and platforms/common-apt.
>> 2. Create and maintenace initramfs-tools by moblin2.
>>    It needs to refer moblin2 yum repository.
>>
>> Could you tell me comment about it?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>   
>>     
>
>
>   

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