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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
Le 02/01/2016 19:53, Steve Litt a écrit :
> How do you tell your kernel not to load an initramfs?

     There's an item in "make menuconfig" where you can tell where to 
find the initramfs.


     There are two ways to build it: either provide a compressed archive 
or a list of files. I'm sure you can find many howtos on the web. I 
learned that ~10 years ago and built my own framework. Of course you 
need to put in some applications and the easiest is Busybox.


     This means you must build Busybox, preferably as a statically 
linked single executable. Building it statically is almost impossible if 
it is linked against glibc. To use another libc, I think the easiest way 
is to use the Buildroot toolchain; just configure Buildroot to build 
nothing but Busybox.


     Once you have Busybox, you only need to write shell scripts and 
discover the mysteries of starting up a Linux system. There's some fun...