[arch-releng] LiveCD kernel?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 18:15:35 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list.
>
> I was wondering how the kernel was built for the LiveCD. I am trying to
> build my own livecd based off of Arch's (with Squashfs LZMA), and thus need
> to patch the kernel to support it. I have tried searching, but neither Larch
> nor ArchISO have any info on this, and there is no documentation on the
> official CD that I could find.

The kernel is the stock arch kernel. It includes unionfs and squashfs.
The other modules, such as aufs and squashfs-lzma, are built
out-of-tree as external modules and simply included in the initramfs.


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