On Fri, 5 May 2006 08:48:43 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:19:56PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > yaird is far easier to backport, and pulls in barely any > > dependencies. > > It also (last I tried it) does not support: > passing root= arguments, it hard codes the root location. This makes > fixing things very difficult. > Does not support md raid, nor lvm. > > In all it is almost useless in that state. I tried that first since > yes it was much easier to backport, but it simply was unusuable for > anything but the most primitive of systems. From man yaird: --- The following configurations are supported: SATA, SCSI, IDE, USB storage, DASD, LVM2, mdadm, cryptsetup, cryptsetup-luks, USB keyboards, NFS root, EVMS. Not yet supported: swsusp, firewire, loopback, loopaes, dmraid. --- Works great for me with root on LVM2 (on an i386 box, admittedly). --Adam
