problems building geninitrd-2.4.1 and genromfs-0.3.9

[Michal Moskal]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 07:34:45PM +0200, Paweł Sakowski wrote:
> > Also, what is the shell 'trash' that your geninitrd refers to?  I
> > can't find that anywhere.
> 
> ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/PLD-1.0/i686/PLD/RPMS/trash-1.3.0-1.i686.rpm
> ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/PLD-1.0/SRPMS/SRPMS/trash-1.3.0-1.src.rpm
> 
> That's PLD's work. It's a minimal shell that contains only the functions
> required to parse initrd's startup file. 

trash is by no means limited to initrd. It's in fact minimal shell,
but when writing it had nothing to do with initrd. Also it has much
more features then it's needed in initrd, which one may easly examine
by comprasion of sizes of trash and bsp (w/o insmod).

> Its use has been obsoleted by bsp
> (also our stuff :), which contains a built-in insmod, making the resulting 
> initrd even smaller.

<advertise>Now also raidstart</advertise> :)))

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