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Created Aug 08, 2016 by Emily@emily🤖

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.

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