Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:44:12
Message-Id: 001f01cd0d09$ea3f0dc0$bebd2940$@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Alan Mackenzie
1 > From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:acm@×××.de]
2
3 > Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I
4 don't
5 > know if it's true or not.
6
7 dracut wants you to have loadable module /support/ in your kernel so it can
8 scan for modules needed by the rootfs. The kernel-module support in dracut
9 is just another module; you could omit that module and I believe dracut will
10 carry on fine. Of course, if you have nothing compiled as a module then your
11 initramfs just won't have any modules built into it either way.
12
13 --Mike