On Friday, December 21, 2012 10:21:02 AM William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 09:38:36 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 21/12/12 03:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >> An init* needs to be kept in sync with the rest of the system as > > > >> well. > > > > > > > > Just to be clear, by "init*" you mean {initrd,initramfs} , correct? > > > > > > Seems likely. > > > > > > However, for the most part it really only needs to be kept in sync > > > with the kernel. Smarter ones like dracut that might do things like > > > keep a copy of mdadm.conf internally might need to be updated when > > > your disks change, and so on. In general, however, they only need > > > changes when either your kernel changes, or the path to the root > > > filesystem changes (by path I mean mdadm/lvm/nfs/etc). > > > > And with the "move to /usr", also when that changes. > > Granted, on most systems it won't actually move often once it's installed. > > Can you be more specific here? I do not understand what you mean.
The "path to /usr" won't change very often. > On the subject of generating an initramfs, you can build one if you > want, or there are tools in our tree that can build one for you. You > would use genkernel after a more current version is stabilized [1] or > dracut. This is covered in the initramfs guide [2]. As stated, I already tried genkernel and the current stable version actually does render a bootable version. However, it is, in my opinion, a workaround for a problem that has been forced upon me. As soon as eudev is stable enough, I will dump udev. > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/441004 Strange, I use a current-stable version of genkernel, /usr is on LVM and the system boots correctly without issues. -- Joost
