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cloverskull

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Registered: 2018-09-30

Posts: 207

mkinitcpio - specific config/modules/hooks for specific kernels?

Hey friends, I'm wondering if it's possible to have a specific configuration per kernel? For example, I'd like to have linux, linux-ck, linux-zen, etc., use systemd init (vs busybox) but I prefer to have linux-lts use the standard defaults. Is this possible?

I use systemd-boot so manually managing boot configurations is easy enough for me.

nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 648

Re: mkinitcpio - specific config/modules/hooks for specific kernels?

The .preset files in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ have a commented out ALL_config (and preset_config) option that you can use to specify a different configuration file.
Mind that if you place them in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/ (e.g. ALL_config=/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/another.conf), then .preset files without a specified *_config (i.e. the default) will use /etc/mkinitcpio.conf + /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/*.conf.