From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFDF1381F3 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AD9821C044; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD87D21C004 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFD333D929 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:29:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.32 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.32 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.309, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KbBkbXYPQutt for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2E0933D90D for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TnIOL-00007V-Qo for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:29:09 +0100 Received: from wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net ([174.76.82.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:29:09 +0100 Received: from boxcars by wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:29:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?UTF-8?B?wrtRwqs=?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:29:07 -0600 Organization: none Message-ID: <20121224182907.2bf6d3d6@fuchsia.remarqs.net> References: <20121218163332.7956f31a@khamul.example.com> <87txrd6pb3.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121223182037.1553813f@khamul.example.com> <87bodk7lb6.fsf@ist.utl.pt> <20121224085528.56f535ec@khamul.example.com> <50D85167.9060309@gmail.com> <20121224204817.335033c6@khamul.example.com> <50D8B467.4080100@gmail.com> <20121224230413.GL26547@server> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wsip-174-76-82-7.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: edf5455c-71e1-45b5-926a-07a4b918850d X-Archives-Hash: 503864e3b86e9c110477b839678fc62c On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 Bruce Hill 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.