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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:20:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it |
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> > caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root |
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> > partition. |
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> The issue mentioned was an example. It was also: |
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> 1) The only one I can remember from the last 4 or 5 years |
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> 2) Easily avoided with a "rebuild initramfs" notice during upgrade |
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3) spurious as the poster then realised that this was a PEBKAC problem. |
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So in 5 years you have seen one problem blamed on the initramfs, and all |
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but one of those reported problems were actually down the the initramfs. |
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> I think part of the "problem" with it is that the documentation about it |
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> isn't clear. |
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No argument there. |
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> There are tools (genkernel / dracut /..? ) that can |
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> automate the generation of it. But it isn't clear what exactly it is |
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> doing. If there would be a clear guide on how to do it manually, or a |
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> tool that would assist in building the file(s) needed to have it build |
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> into the kernel, then it might be more acceptable to some. |
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There are two. A rather terse one in the kernel documentation, I posted |
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the location earlier in the thread, and a page on the Wiki that describes |
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the process in more detail, including an example init script. I've just |
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looked for it and it has expanded since I last need to look at it |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting |
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Or if you look at the official Gentoo documentation it links to the |
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various resources. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/initramfs-guide.xml |
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Neil Bothwick |
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