On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 01:23:16PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > The problems with that is these: It worked ALL these years, why should > > it not now? I have / on a traditional partition which is not going to > > resize easily. If I put / on LVM, I need a init thingy. I don't want a > > init thingy > > Is that really true? Do you _really_ care whether an 'init thingy' exists > on your system, or is this energy about it really based in something else? > > I'm just not understanding the resistance so I'm curious. > > I don't like, really don't like, the work that currently goes into making > my 'init thingy' work. All the Gentoo docs about creating hierarchies by > hand and populating them with files and then compressing it. All that > drives me nuts. It should be 100% automatic, and probably is with the > right tools which I haven't found. > > But I'm not understanding why you are so against it in totality. It would > be one thing to say that it's too much work. That I understand, but not > wanting one seems a bit overboard to me...
Once upon a time (for 7 years) Slackware was my distro, and not only as a user. They still have a script (mkinitrd) which only asks a minimal amount of information from the user to run a simple one-liner and create initrd.gz. 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. Since there are so very many ways to boot a system, with / on RAID0, /usr on LVM, and any other number of combinations on this LAN, I didn't bother to investigate why the Gentoo devs retired mkinitrd. So long as you're not going to let this thread die, I've thrown that in the mix and maybe someone will come up with the *real* *reason* that mkinitrd, such a simple method to create an initrd, is in attic rather than portage. -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
