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On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:51:43AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: |
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> > Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there |
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> > was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time |
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> > ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't know it's |
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> > history. Most distros still have a mkinitrd script, but not Gentoo. And there |
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> > are lots of resources online which can guide you in making an initrd or |
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> > initramfs. I'm an old guy and don't care to learn too much new unless someone |
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> > very knowledgable in *nix (not just one distro) can give me a good reason for |
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> > doing so. No one has with initramfs to date. |
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> Try reading the kernel Documentation. (e.g., |
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> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.) |
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> initramfs is an improvement over initrd. |
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> Todd |
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Having read it years ago it still fails to give me a good reason for using it. |
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