On Sunday, August 14, 2016 08:38:42 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:29 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On August 14, 2016 8:55:32 PM GMT+02:00, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > >>On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 11:48:08 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >>> Don't you still need genkernel if you want to build an initramfs? > >> > >>No, dracut. > >> > >>> The handbook (amd64) seems to imply you do, and I don't know of an > >> > >>easy > >> > >>> way to build an initramfs just with the bare kernel source. > >> > >>Dracut. > >> > > Dracut if you just want something quick and easy. > > If you want something small and reliable, build your own. > > A homegrown initramfs created by a novice is going to be more reliable > than one created by dracut or genkernel? Seems unlikely.
The ones created by genkernel or dracut always need a few iterations before they work semi-reliably and are not flexible enough. I have 2 disks in my laptop. Both are encrypted using LUKS and the same passphrase. Neither genkernel nor dracut have the intelligence to ask me once and try the key on both, only asking for a 2nd key when the provided one doesn't work for both. I ended up writing my own, which has proven more reliable and stable. The reduced size also makes maintenance less of an issue. -- Joost
