On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson <dan.johans...@dmj.nu> wrote: >>>>>> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is >>>>>> > coming >>>>>> > from several upstreams. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. ;-) >>>>> >>>>> I can only agree! >>>>> I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo). >>>>> This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /. >>>> >>>> It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that >>>> if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread >>>> that followed it. >>> >>> ...and now I know that my entirely UUID-driven fstab may stop working, >>> if they choose not to add that particular "tweak/improvement". >> >> ...or you could, you know, use the genkernel generated initramfs, or >> dracut. Anyway, probably UUIDs and labels will be added to the minimal >> initramfs (it is my undrestanding it's kinda easy to do). The >> important thing is that it will be still supported. > > I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very > early in my system's lifetime. I hadn't heard about dracut until > today. I still don't know anything about it, really.
It's another initramfs creator. Since I use systemd and wanted to try plymouth, I started to use it. In my case it works, and I get a really nice splash screen at boot time. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
