Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 >> Bruce Hill <[email protected]> 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 > >
I tried that a while back when this init thingy started. I never got it to boot once, not even a close call. I got blinking keyboard lights and error messages that filled the screen. I worked with that thing for over a week. It is in the same pile as hal. Oooo, let's not even go there. Grrrrrr! I eventually went to dracut which *seems* to work. My current solution, don't reboot. root@fireball / # uptime 19:28:53 up 93 days, 12:38, 9 users, load average: 0.30, 0.31, 0.32 root@fireball / # That has worked for the last 93 days. If you are worried about something, avoid it. ;-D Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
