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 1S8t7Y-00041h-08 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:52:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95793E0788; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4B5E0630 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD69BA806B for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=libertytrek.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s= libertytrek.org; b=I1HQZwPudLDlwpVokV9NsMoLeRmCMcv4+z4x7rYslYa+l 2/Au357/xIVArQ0BslP3Qf2tbjYs3OCe8vnUlMYmcRDaZQePIzF/mEAH1hfzrYN6 qDxlI6dk4ww2LPAtCvwJHlS0aL+meCDheONO9yvfAfDAEZr0W1Jpfx7n3HNFFE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s= libertytrek.org; bh=2BBQqzmckc50/g6SKOiUYi/ZXUE=; b=jhcFrZohcBr4 jYhMCqwr2Ge/3gxPG2zN/hbhRZb5vudeHKaQqy/d+ZLdeijSxeWQw7/cheQhKlYS EeGdFrS8wkvM/54FX3yOHEb53GyU1GcRp2DMsOUvIXDjGjo0NbjdCoVEfrMVndFo BSq3jpseb56H9+xvKTl426ovRYBbTZc= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (50-76-228-201-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.76.228.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a81.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9BF03A806A for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F648894.8040908@libertytrek.org> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:50:28 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! References: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> In-Reply-To: <709768995.843751.1331957483491.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1and1.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f77c4e51-d68a-434b-af82-f744971032dc X-Archives-Hash: d7695ce99ae49890b38e4a93743b29fd On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > An initramfs which does this is created by >>=sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or >>=sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be > sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to... I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it... I have a remote system that has /usr on a separate partition. So... How do I find out if I am actually *using* an initramfs right now (I know it is built into the kernel), and If I am not, how do I do this without using genkernel? Is dracut t he only other option? Is it easy/trivial to set one up manually? I cannot imagine that gentoo is just going to throw me to the wolves like this without providing *in-depth* instructions on how to make sure my system will boot after this update, like they did with the baselayout-2 update...