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