On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 07:22:46AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Right now migrating to initramfs won't do any good, as Gentoo doesn't have > an initramfs available which mounts /usr. No doubt once Fedora gets theirs > working we'll be able to copy it (assuming it is FOSS), or we can write our > own. The options for this are looking like: - static initramfs that I proposed (WilliamH has an early prototype) - genkernel - dracut
WilliamH's prototype seems to mostly work, I just want to polish it some and then release it. I think we can offer it as an easy default to users, since it doesn't need to be rebuilt when the kernel is rebuilt at all. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
