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On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:15:38 +0000, Laurence Perkins wrote: |
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> Note also that the "init thingy" is nothing more than a little |
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> filesystem which contains everything you'd need to make sure was on |
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> your root partition if you were attempting to boot without one. |
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> Building one yourself is generally pretty trivial if you don't like |
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> what dracut/genkernel produce. Utilities, kernel modules, and a script |
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> to set up your main system and switch to it. |
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I used to do that before I started using dracut, but dracut is less work |
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to maintain. One nice benefit of doing it yourself is that you can embed |
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the initramfs in the kernel image, meaning you only have one file to |
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manage and once a kernel works it will always work, which may not be the |
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case if you rebuild a separate initramfs. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction. |
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