Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

[Bruce Hill]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
> > Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.
> >> Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram
> >> filesystem) became vogue for the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd
> >> (initial ram disk image), and mkinitrd got retired.
> >
> > Is there Gentoo documentation for creating initramfs without using
> > dracut?  I could only find documentation for doing it *with* dracut,
> > and that procedure required using genkernel.  Surely Gentoo must have
> > an initramfs guide for non-genkernel users, but I couldn't find one.
> >
> >
>
> I used this one (I think!!!) 6 months or a year ago. It worked first
> time but it was a bit of work getting there:
>
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs

Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there
was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time
ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't know it's
history. Most distros still have a mkinitrd script, but not Gentoo. And there
are lots of resources online which can guide you in making an initrd or
initramfs. I'm an old guy and don't care to learn too much new unless someone
very knowledgable in *nix (not just one distro) can give me a good reason for
doing so. No one has with initramfs to date.
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