On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:20:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it > > caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root > > partition. > > The issue mentioned was an example. It was also: > 1) The only one I can remember from the last 4 or 5 years > 2) Easily avoided with a "rebuild initramfs" notice during upgrade
3) spurious as the poster then realised that this was a PEBKAC problem. So in 5 years you have seen one problem blamed on the initramfs, and all but one of those reported problems were actually down the the initramfs. > I think part of the "problem" with it is that the documentation about it > isn't clear. No argument there. > There are tools (genkernel / dracut /..? ) that can > automate the generation of it. But it isn't clear what exactly it is > doing. If there would be a clear guide on how to do it manually, or a > tool that would assist in building the file(s) needed to have it build > into the kernel, then it might be more acceptable to some. There are two. A rather terse one in the kernel documentation, I posted the location earlier in the thread, and a page on the Wiki that describes the process in more detail, including an example init script. I've just looked for it and it has expanded since I last need to look at it http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting Or if you look at the official Gentoo documentation it links to the various resources. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/initramfs-guide.xml -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 31: Small crowd
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