On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ?
I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid. I'm just following the instructions on the wiki. The wiki says to edit mkinitcpio.conf immediately prior to the reboot, so that's what I'm doing. It doesn't mention any need to rebuild an image (nor how to do it).
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On the wiki, it does not mention anything about rebuilding your initramfs, because mkinitcpio is called automatically by the installer after the configuration phase. However: mkinitcpio.conf is read by the mkinitcpio utility in order to create the initial ramdisk image. Essentially, it's a bunch of stuff needed by the kernel before the root filesystem is made available. After you edit the mkinitcpio.conf file, you HAVE to rebuild[1] your initramfs image, in order for the changes to actually take effect. If you just edit the file and then reboot, nothing is done. Also, I assume you are using the live CD for making your changes. Make sure that, when creating the images, you have chrooted[2] into your installation and you are not just creating them on the Live CD fs. --Chris Sakalis [1] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#Image_creation_and_activatio... [2] - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot