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On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Does there happen to be a Gentoo doc anywhere that goes through |
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> creating an initrd from scratch? |
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> If not Gentoo, then any good web site would be a big help. I'm |
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> interested in booting from RAID - or at least investigating it - so I |
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> need to learn about this. |
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> |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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genkernel is the 'official' way, and I at least use it on my netbook. |
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Maintaining an up to date kernel with an integrated initramfs with |
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little effort on my own part, while Gentoo itself sits on an encrypted |
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partition was just too much to pass up. |
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The guide for it is here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml |
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Alternatively, gentoo-wiki.com has guides on most anything I've ever |
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decided I wanted to look up how to do, and the forums also tend to |
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have a good how-to here and there. |
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I've not looked over these two myself, so I can't vouch for them... |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=193273 |
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And last idea I have, as it's where I've learned more about how to |
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make Linux do *anything* I might want it to do... LFS and the other |
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projects it's spawned, as the principles used there tend to be low |
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level enough to work on any linux system I've tried them on (though |
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the specific, explicit, instructions make assumptions about where |
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things are and such, of course). |
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http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/initramfs.txt |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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