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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:30:33 -0800
schrieb "David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>: 

> I'd like to be some help on the matter, I think its been partially my
> fault for not doing this sooner. I'm going to try and generate a
> simple way of getting the right files/modules/userspace stuff into the
> linux spell so that root lvm is possable and it should be an easy plug
> and go from the iso's standpoint to make a kernel image so the users
> will be able to boot.

Thank you for taking on this one. It's due - all praise to you!

> check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/early-userspace/README) and you
> utilize the klibc package to help out with this. I'll probably be

I just want to drop a note about the alternative to klibc (I didn't
really get that to work for me):
You can put busybox into the initramfs instead, it also includes a
switch_root tool to get the last part done. I made such an initramfs
and put a static cryptsetup-luks in there to get my encrypted swap/home
going. As a side effect, I have a nice rescue system of quite some
functionality depending on my busybox config.

Thomas.