On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> 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. > > > > > > I used this one (I think!!!) 6 months or a year ago. It worked first > time but it was a bit of work getting there: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't know it's history. Most distros still have a mkinitrd script, but not Gentoo. And there are lots of resources online which can guide you in making an initrd or initramfs. I'm an old guy and don't care to learn too much new unless someone very knowledgable in *nix (not just one distro) can give me a good reason for doing so. No one has with initramfs to date. -- 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
