Dermot Bradley authored Apr 12, 2022 and Natanael Copa committed May 16, 2022

modinfo is called without the "-k version" argument and so when
running mkinitfs inside a chroot where the version of the kernel
package being installed differs from the version of the host
machine's kernel then modinfo is called (to check firmware
requirements) using the wrong kernel version.

Add the "-k" argument to ensure the correct kernel version is used.

NOTE: Busybox's modinfo does not support the "-k" option. Currently
Alpine is using modinfo from the kmod package, however obviously in
the future Busybox's version is to be used this this will break. It
appears the only solution in that scenario would be to add "-k"
support to Busybox's version.

The driver for the primary console might be compiled as a kernel module
in which case the primary console will not be available until modules
are loaded.

Fix openrc output by passing the console device to switch_root.

Fixes https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/mkinitfs/-/merge_requests/99
Ref https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13677

fixes commit 6a15ae8d (init: only install sshd if there are no apkovl)

vmware scsi host has issues with coldplugging, which causes
nlplug-findfs to not find the device withing excpected time. We work
around this by detect vmware and manually load ata_piix and mptspi
drivers early, so they are already loaded when nlplug-findfs runs.

ref https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/8476

User may have chosen dropbear, in which case we don't want install
openssh.

When determining which firmware needs to be includes in the initramfs
mkinitfs searches for kernel modules using the filename *.ko and so
does not cater for compressed modules (and therefore does not include
their required firmware in the initramfs).

Change the search pattern to deal with both uncompressed and
compressed modules.

fixes commit 0316297f (nlplug-findfs: add long options)

ref https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13178

This is needed for early console

compressed kernel modules may have a .ko.zstd suffix. Add support for
this in mkinitfs

also include /sbin/modprobe in the base

omni authored Jan 14, 2021 and Natanael Copa committed Nov 05, 2021

- default mode=0755 for overlaytmpfs, setting with overlaytmpfsflags
  overrides
- enable rootflags & rootfstype options for underlying rootfs
- force read-only mount of "lowerdir" (root-ro) and read-write mode of
  "upperdir" (root-rw) to mitigate user foot gunnery

Henrik Riomar authored Jan 14, 2021 and Natanael Copa committed Sep 17, 2021

This is not needed anymore as the modules are built in since Alpine
release v3.13

This reverts commit 89f9c4fb.

Using --run with incremental assembly ensures that the system will be able to
boot and won't drop to recovery shell when only the minimal number of devices
are present. [1]

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/tree/ReadMe.c?h=mdadm-4.1#n600

kpcyrd authored Jun 26, 2021 and Natanael Copa committed Aug 06, 2021

See https://twitter.com/sn0int/status/1408853993774845952

omni authored Jan 15, 2021 and Natanael Copa committed Jun 07, 2021

- add zstd to mkinitfs usage output
- add flags -C and -s to man page
- update bugtracker URL
- proofreading

Import the pool without mounting any file systems.

See merge request !78