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dedushka

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Registered: 2020-12-06

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So what's the point of the --generatedir command switch in mkinitcpio?

My ESP is mounted at /efi. Initially I opted to use /boot for entries in systemd-boot, but it won't look outside of /efi. Fine, I'll move the files inside of /efi using the --generatedir switch in mkinitcpio.

Except it doesn't put the images in the directory I choose. It just dumps them in /boot anyway.

So what exactly is --generatedir supposed to do?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: So what's the point of the --generatedir command switch in mkinitcpio?

       -d, --generatedir directory
           Set directory as the location where the initramfs is built. This might be useful to
           generate a shutdown ramfs in /run/initramfs.

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