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Matthias Bethke schrieb: |
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> Hi Volker, |
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> on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:53:02PM +0100, you wrote: |
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>> with 'don't use genkernel' I meant 'don't use an initrd' - because it adds a |
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>> lot of time to the boot. And with everything essential in the kernel it is a |
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>> useless waste of time. But even if you don't use genkernel to create an initrd |
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>> - there is no reason to use it at all. |
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> Well, there are. I was just about to add one to my system to use |
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> tuxonice with encrypted swap. AFAICS there's no way to have both at the |
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> moment without an initrd. Although I don't really see why it *should* |
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> be, cryptsetup being the only thing that needs to run before I can |
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> resume; I think it should be possible to hack some in-kernel cryptsetup |
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> using kdb's keyboard handling, just that nobody has done it yet :) |
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> |
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> cheers, |
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> Matthias |
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When your initrd doesn't have much to do, it won't take much time. |
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Genkernel's (great) init-script is quit huge. If you don't need all of |
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its functionality (module loading, net boot, ...) you can delete these |
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parts. |
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You could also use something other than a bourne-shell script - a small |
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C program or a script in a faster shell/script language. |
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