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Bruce Hill wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 |
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>> Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic. |
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>>> Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram |
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>>> filesystem) became vogue for the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd |
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>>> (initial ram disk image), and mkinitrd got retired. |
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>> Is there Gentoo documentation for creating initramfs without using |
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>> dracut? I could only find documentation for doing it *with* dracut, |
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>> and that procedure required using genkernel. Surely Gentoo must have |
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>> an initramfs guide for non-genkernel users, but I couldn't find one. |
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> Do you understand that initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing? |
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Don't they sort of *do* the same thing? Different method but still a |
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boot up helper thingy. This is why I started calling them init thingy. |
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There are a few init thingys and I just lump them all together since |
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they sort of serve the same function but in a different way. |
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Feel free to set me straight tho. As long as you don't tell me my |
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system is broken and has not been able to boot for the last 9 years |
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without one of those things. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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