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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:29:07 -0600
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600
Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> Gentoo had mkinitrd once upon a time, but it's now in attic.
> Somewhere, sometime, for some reason, initramfs (inital ram
> filesystem) became vogue for the Gentoo camp, rather than initrd
> (initial ram disk image), and mkinitrd got retired.
Is there Gentoo documentation for creating initramfs without using
dracut? I could only find documentation for doing it *with* dracut,
and that procedure required using genkernel. Surely Gentoo must have
an initramfs guide for non-genkernel users, but I couldn't find one.