From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HtG00-0007EI-U0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 04:41:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4U4cHdX029911; Wed, 30 May 2007 04:38:17 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4U4cHFx029897 for ; Wed, 30 May 2007 04:38:17 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so105028uge for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V2GoEdsofhQ/bjbVb1TSNJtvQOn4qHHCNJ/d1/J2LSSm8CE5qQJW+YNWp/xFNYE8QG06HYWsg0R5gi8+HzMC4+GUbQByLb/g81vdMtzM7RyO2s9ZZdWAjAETVoUalIFkWtTFq75nkEwK8CUihhqVhFuX2YuMOv0Wtg6KDaTiaGs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=P5iG7KY6jwWzgxI+Tt6NdHAlIRbtqvAAbMIt93zu6yzxZS/oAq7b8XMaIBJdSv8LmCEas+EUWxK8E/Khs+3ePahz0FssE3u4ewfohnc/x5y+x4lo1+9aU+Okfsi1gFzYR/cBF7kEMxSvPUo9N/XTks20WsC8C8AFxeCveabw3w0= Received: by 10.82.138.6 with SMTP id l6mr13676518bud.1180499897188; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.122.4 with HTTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7a329d910705292138k76ece020gdf1d226405cb1fff@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700 From: "Wil Reichert" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL) In-Reply-To: <20070530040936.GE8469@ifa.hawaii.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070527131103.770b71c6@Bazaar> <20070528024149.4f6d918c@Bazaar> <20070528071415.415b75f1@mandalor.homelinux.net> <465B2189.9010008@getdesigned.at> <7a329d910705281750k36fda655h899d1a3dc4dd2cb@mail.gmail.com> <465CC64E.6010004@gmx.at> <20070530040936.GE8469@ifa.hawaii.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 7af3ce4e-dba3-44e1-b89f-1303ed092536 X-Archives-Hash: ba877af5ac59e686dacce1689da9af48 On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote: > > FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the > preferred way nowadays. > > Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at: > > http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/initramfs > > Umm, I think you need to check your facts. genkernel creates a gzip'd > CPIO archive named "initramfs-genkernel-arch-versionstring"... So the command 'genkernel initrd' creates a file called 'initramfs-...' which contains files called etc/initrd.defaults and etc/initrd.scripts. Poor naming conventions but it looks like an initrd to me. Wil -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list