Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Florian D." <flockmock@×××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:35:32
Message-Id: 465CC64E.6010004@gmx.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) by Wil Reichert
1 Wil Reichert wrote:
2 > I've done lvm on a root partition before with the old baselayout. Just followed the directions
3 > here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_an_LVM2_root_partition It did need an
4 > initramfs, but genkernel makes that step pretty easy.
5 FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the preferred way nowadays.
6 Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at:
7 http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/initramfs
8
9 more info about initramfs and the difference to an initrd is in
10 Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
11 of your linux kernel tree.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu>