Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

[William Kenworthy]

On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 18:18 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
....
>
> I love genkernel, it just makes life so much easier, you don't have
> enter every command manually. And still keeps it the gentoo-way: you can
> configure everything so that it does exactly what you wan't.
>
> Just take a look at /etc/genkernel.conf
> genkernel can do even more stuff for you.
> For example include a copy of /etc/mdadm.conf into your initramfs so
> that the initramfs can mount your software raid (even with metadata
> higher than 0.90 :) - this is where the kernel raid auto assembly fails).
> Or enable a splash theme for a graphical boot - if you like that sort of
> thing.
>
> I'm sure you're gonna love it to after you have used it for some time.
>

There are two problems with genkernel - historicly it was greeted with
enthusiasm ... until you got an unbootable system which with early
versions happened all too often - thats why I dropped it and have only
just started to experiment with it again because of the /usr changes.

Secondly, it handles only simple cases and cant do (for instance)
in-kernel suspend to disk without manual intervention - there are
probably a number of other cases too.

BillK