Am 20.08.2013 08:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and > having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly > recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you.
I'd dig a short and working howto "systemd and dracut". My approach in the last weeks/months was a mixed one (which is nearly always bad): I ran genkernel to compile kernel and modules ... additionally generated initramfs with a quick-and-dirty-script hacked by myself (it uses dracut) ... and then executed grub2-mkconfig to update my grub2-config. This works so far ... until yesterday when my thinkpad didn't boot correctly anymore with the gentoo-sources-based kernel/initramfs 3.10.9 (interesting: my desktop worked out fine with the same sources ... the config might be a bit different). I found that the genkernel-based grub2-entry (with the initramfs generated via genkernel) didn't create /dev/shm anymore .. leading to various things failing. Another grub2-entry pointing to the dracut-based initramfs works fine. Cool. So I have to get rid of genkernel, right? At least for now. Additionally I would really like to understand how to influence the default entry for grub2 ... letting grub2-mkconfig detect the available options is one thing ... but do I really have to count down the available kernels and edit the number? I would prefer to be able to explicitly select my default kernel by editing some file and for example choose "3.10.9" somewhere ... Stefan
