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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> 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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> I used this one (I think!!!) 6 months or a year ago. It worked first |
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> time but it was a bit of work getting there: |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs |
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I tried that a while back when this init thingy started. I never got it |
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to boot once, not even a close call. I got blinking keyboard lights and |
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error messages that filled the screen. I worked with that thing for |
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over a week. It is in the same pile as hal. Oooo, let's not even go |
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there. Grrrrrr! |
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I eventually went to dracut which *seems* to work. My current solution, |
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don't reboot. |
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root@fireball / # uptime |
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19:28:53 up 93 days, 12:38, 9 users, load average: 0.30, 0.31, 0.32 |
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root@fireball / # |
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That has worked for the last 93 days. If you are worried about |
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something, avoid it. ;-D |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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