On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:13:34PM +0100, Roy Bamford wrote: > I really don't want any autoblackmagic involved in the booting of my > systems. If I don't understand it I can't fix it when (not if) it > breaks. > > I have separate /usr everywhere and most places raid and lvm, so I > already have initrds most places. I will reluctantly move to an initrd > everywhere - but only if I can roll it by hand, so I can fix it by hand > too. You could; there would be nothing stopping you from rolling your own initramfs. William