Month: April 2010
Fedora 12 / boot / initrd / initramfs
I have been using Fedora 12 (under HVM – Oracle VM 2.2) to build latest kernels from git (kernel.org), identify bugs, bisect, build and test. On Xen HVM Fedora 12 is quite slow (a full kernel build takes 3.5 hrs). I have noticed that initrd / mkinitrd does not have a future as Fedora 12…