[gentoo-user] dracut vs. genkernel

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

Greets, gentoo-users ...

I am currently trying to find out why my LVM2-volumes aren't activated
correctly at boot time. I am using packages from the overlay
systemd-love as I run systemd as init-system (why? that's another
discussion ;-) ).

Until now I always was kind of lazy and used genkernel (or lately
"genkernel-next") to build and install my kernels/modules. Yes, it's
uncool, but so far it worked for me and it was comfortable.

In my discussion with one of the devs of the systemd-love-overlay he
pointed me at dracut to generate my initramfs. Never used it before and
so I am still learning (yes, it booted already).

I found infos in the Gentoo Wiki but I would also hear your opinions and
experience:

How do you generate your kernel and initramfs with dracut? Any handy
scripts available ... any tricks or hints?

Where are the advantages of dracut compared to genkernel? The udev-approach?

Thanks, Stefan