[solved] initramfs 'pro' needed

[Doug Hunley]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:25, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using an init.cfg (attached) to have the kernel build the
> initramfs and pull in all the binaries that are needed. How do I tweak
> this to pull in the appropriate modules?

I consulted The Google and put some 'echo' statements into the
kernel's make file and determined that it is *not* possible to
auto-include the modules when building an initramfs in this fashion.
In fact, the initramfs is damn near the *first* thing the kernel
builds....

So I ended up just having my /sbin/init that runs inside the initramfs
use busybox to symlink /lib/modules/`uname -r` from the real_root to
the initramfs and then run modprobe. So the kernel boots up w/o the
modules, loads the initramfs, and then the modules get loaded and boot
gets handed off to the 'real' system

TL;DR you can't, but you can work around it and get close enough

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