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On Thursday 07 May 2009 18:48:15 Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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> I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop without initrd. |
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I've never managed to successfully boot a gentoo laptop with initrd. |
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initrd's are there for the case where the distro builder does not know what |
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the hardware is beforehand. Like binary distros - they must boot of almost |
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anything so all modules must be detected and loaded at boot time. |
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Gentoo, almost by definition, is used in cases where the builder does know |
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what the hardware is - [s]he usually owns it. So you can dispense with initrd |
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and simply compile in the modules required to boot. |
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There's always exceptions of course - booting off a soft-raid volume, Sabayon, |
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building one master copy of gentoo to use throughout your organization with a |
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range of hardware. |
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And of course there's always our very own elephant in the room - genkernel. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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