Ubuntu
grub package

  1. Bug #785394
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 785394

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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote :

Hello gentlemen,

# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14389163 2011-05-19 17:29 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic

# zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic | wc -c
32537600

I use a "generic" (rather than "targeted") initrd because the system is installed using an imaging mechanism, so the same initrd needs to work for different systems.

Is it possible to build a crash-initrd that only contains the modules that would be needed (disk I/O, etc.), without it being specific to the system?