On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:29:07PM -0600, »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 > Bruce Hill <da...@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.
Do you understand that initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing? -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
