On Tue, 21 May 2019 13:51:43 -0300 Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public <[email protected]> wrote:
> Em maio 21, 2019 2:24 Ike Devolder via arch-dev-public escreveu: > > > > Without looking at dracut yet, I have a few questions: > > - Is there a description how to move from mkinitcpio to dracut? > > No, not yet. But it is as simple as running dracut -H -f > /boot/initramfs-linux.img, for > trying it out. I'll work later this week on a wiki page, but the good thing > is, it has > plenty documentation available. > > > > - Does dracut support what mkinitcpio has? all the hooks and stuff > > It does support even more than we do currently. It can boot from pretty much > anything, > including NFS and NBD. > > > - did you already add pacman hooks for dracut as we need for mkinitcpio, > > or is that not needed? > > > > We will certainly need a hook to trigger the rebuild, but I didn't add it as > a part of > the dracut package yet, because I need to write them, but I want first to see > if dracut > is a good fit for Arch or not. A hook would be good, but might need to be in the kernel packages like the current hooks are. Kernel versions are hard-coded in the hook. It would also be nice to rename the initramfs so that we've got both available, I just put -dracut in it for testing this. > > > When I have some time to spare I certainly will try it out. > > > > Please do. And make sure you have your fallback image working when you do. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini
