[arch-dev-public] [mkinitcpio][RFC] a better fallback image?

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Wed Jul 25 18:45:39 EDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Well that answers the why, but that was the easy question =P.

Ah, my brain skipped over the hard part of the question ;-)

> I suppose
> I could re-add a flag that would point mkinitcpio at a different module
> root (making no attempt to fully reimplement --basedir), which could be
> simply passed onto modinfo/modprobe ...but that would require patching
> modinfo first.

Hm, I didn't realise that this was not currently possible. Good point.
If worst comes to worse, I guess we could try using some chroot magic?

-t


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