On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM, »Q« <boxc...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:04:13 -0600 > Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> 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
