speeding up boot even more? (rebuild mkinitrd)

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 23:44:49 -0400
Will Woods wrote:

> Nope. mkinitrd is pretty smart - if you don't have mdraid/dmraid/LVM
> volumes, it doesn't bother putting the modules / setup code in the
> initrd. 

Then why do I get all the messages before udev up around the time
initrd is running about "no raids found" and such?

>In short: don't bother, it won't change anything. But if you must.. 
>kv=$(uname -r); mkinitrd --stuff -v -f /boot/initrd-$kv.img $kv 

Yea, I finally realized I could find the code running mkinitrd
in the postinstall script for the kernel package and dug out much
the same thing. Weirdly, I get an initrd image that is almost
twice as big when I omit lots of stuff :-).