There is no way to generate initramfs images
| Bugzilla ID | 14 |
| Reporter | A. Wilcox (awilfox) |
| Assignee | Elizabeth Myers (Elizafox) |
| Reported | 2016-08-08 05:11:30 -0500 |
| Modified | 2017-02-25 23:35:04 -0600 |
| Status | RESOLVED FIXED |
| Version | 1.0-ALPHA1 |
| Hardware | Adélie Linux / All |
| Importance | Normal / critical |
Description
An initrd is required to boot Adélie in any of the following situations:
- root (/) is not extfs (XFS, JFS, BTRFS, NILFS2, F2FS, Reiser, and NFS are all modules)
- root is on LVM
- root is encrypted
- user desires better support than sg / ATA_GENERIC (all vendor-specific SATA/PATA controller drivers are modules)
We have no system to create them. The following choices are available in Portage:
dracut
This was originally Red Hat's initramfs generator, which has since been 'absorbed' into kernel.org.
genkernel (-next)
This is Gentoo's initramfs generator.
The following other choices are likely able to be packaged for Adélie:
mkinitcpio
Used by Arch Linux.
mkinitfs
Used by Alpine Linux.
We could also write our own.