On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:34:00PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm also interested in Bruce's history about initrd. Sounds like if > that worked today I'd just use it to make an initrd and be done with > it. Unlike you, I guess, I don't have any political position on these > images that get used early on, any more than I do or do not like the > format of grub.conf or other things like that. > > Cheers, > Mark
Everyone I know who uses an initrd writes his own script. You might read some of the files from Slackware: http://slackware.oregonstate.edu/slackware-14.0/source/a/mkinitrd/ For me, personally, there just isn't a reason for having an initrd in Gentoo. There are good and valid reasons that I use separate /var or /usr or LVM or RAID partitions that, under systemd's udev, would require an initrd. But IMO the OpenRC and >=sys-fs/udev-181 don't need to be rewritten, or obsoleted, by the mess that is systemd. As stated before ... I'm not of the mindset to have choices dictated to me. Bruce -- 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
