From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SCidl-0006Vs-4q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:29:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AAE7E07F0; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC22E074B for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:27:54 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiQGACl2ck98qSdO/2dsb2JhbABFgw6CMrMpgQeCCQEBBSNIHgsNCwICJgICVzKHcKgqkgWBL4wsggyBGASIVpJ6IoocgnSBRxY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,329,1330876800"; d="scan'208";a="341623745" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.39.78]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 28 Mar 2012 10:27:52 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA2B20EE72 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:27:52 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LX-hL2HiUOEG for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:27:49 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264BD724B0 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:27:49 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4F71E865.30800@hadt.biz> References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <4F71E865.30800@hadt.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:27:48 +0800 Message-ID: <1332901668.12748.17.camel@moriah> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 387a701e-344c-4526-8baa-1272b52830a5 X-Archives-Hash: f65807d50ce579fb02070c5d4f924cc3 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