Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

[Todd Goodman]

* Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> [121224 21:17]:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
> > > Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.
> > >> Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram
> > >> filesystem) became vogue for the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd
> > >> (initial ram disk image), and mkinitrd got retired.
> > >
> > > Is there Gentoo documentation for creating initramfs without using
> > > dracut?  I could only find documentation for doing it *with* dracut,
> > > and that procedure required using genkernel.  Surely Gentoo must have
> > > an initramfs guide for non-genkernel users, but I couldn't find one.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I used this one (I think!!!) 6 months or a year ago. It worked first
> > time but it was a bit of work getting there:
> >
> > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
>
> Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there
> was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time
> ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't know it's
> history. Most distros still have a mkinitrd script, but not Gentoo. And there
> are lots of resources online which can guide you in making an initrd or
> initramfs. I'm an old guy and don't care to learn too much new unless someone
> very knowledgable in *nix (not just one distro) can give me a good reason for
> doing so. No one has with initramfs to date.

Try reading the kernel Documentation.  (e.g.,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.)

initramfs is an improvement over initrd.

Todd