On Monday, August 15, 2016 09:48:14 AM Jeroen Mathon wrote: > I have used genkernel for my initramfs. > > The dracut one seems to hang on a kernel panic(Implying that it did not > load the correct modules for luks and lvm).
In my experience, normal for both... > Besides the size of your initramfs should not matter since its only used > to mount the partitions and do the pre-kernel loading. Agreed, except for the next part: > The only thing that you will win by making your own initramfs would be > size and boot speed. If done sanely, the reduced complexity makes debugging and maintenance a lot easier. > Correct me if im wrong btw. > > On 15-08-16 02:45, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> 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. > > > > This is a silly argument. Everybody knows that anybody who wants > > something reliable just writes their own kernel in the first place.
