* Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> [121224 21:17]: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 04:54:08PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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 > > Same question ... initrd.gz and initramfs are *not* the same thing; and there > was a package called mkinitrd in Gentoo that was retired to attic some time > ago, before my exodus from Slackware to Gentoo; therefore, I don't know it's > history. Most distros still have a mkinitrd script, but not Gentoo. And there > are lots of resources online which can guide you in making an initrd or > initramfs. I'm an old guy and don't care to learn too much new unless someone > very knowledgable in *nix (not just one distro) can give me a good reason for > doing so. No one has with initramfs to date.
Try reading the kernel Documentation. (e.g., /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.) initramfs is an improvement over initrd. Todd
