Can NTFS r/w support be built into the initrd?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Aug 5 14:24:11 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:51 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Would it be pretty easy to get the modules (ricoh_mmc and
> dependencies) required to use the ricoh internal SD card reader in the
> initrd? The other thing i wanted to do was just put syslinux on the
> USB drive since it will boot to that, but not the card reader, and
> then actually have the livecd image on an SD card.

You should be able to run:

/sbin/mkinitrd --with=ricoh_mmc -f -v /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname
-r`

The -v will cause it to be verbose, and you should be able to confirm
whether or not it sucked ricoh_mmc and dependencies in.

~spot




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