On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >> I've been experimenting with initramfs recently (I used to use initrd >> for my cdrom bootable lfs firewall). >> >> It's relatively straightforward. I understand dracut may automate some >> of the LVM\MD\RAID stuff (not looked at it yet), but for purely >> educational purposes, isn't a hand-crafted version better? > > What you have is interesting, but if you are not using LVM/MD/RAID, what > is the purpose of your initramfs? > > AFAIK, the only real reason to use an initramfs is to mount the root fs > and the kernel is quite capable of doing that for plain file systems. > > -- Bruce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
1. Education ;) 2. Providing an emergency shell in the event of failure to mount root filesystem -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
