Duncan wrote:
Yes, for LVM, no, for RAID, at least md/mdp kernel RAID.
In theory, yes. In practice, it is unpredictable and flakey.
I lost more than a day with a system that used to be able to
autoassemble the RAID in kernel and boot it and then simply "changed its
mind" and no matter what I did, it wouldn't boot from RAID.
No available diagnostics is another hamper, since dmesg can tell you
little about what exactly went wrong.
In all those cases starting RAID manually went fine.
It is nice to be able to use initramfs as some sort for
backpack/first-aid-kit/MCGuyver's_toolshed when all else fails.
It isn't always simple to boot from another media, especially if you
need that particular kernel etc.
That's why initramfs is cool. If the system is in good enough shape for
grub to grab kernel and initrd, it can run diagnostics and maybe offer
some fundamental services ( like named,dhcpd, routing, firewalling etc).
user-vesa-framebuffer, I take it? FWIW, I'm running radeonfb here. But
before it, I was running a very small font on vgacon. It worked
reasonably well, tho radeonfb is certainly more flexible.
Well, I have nVidia and have _never_ seen any card on which rivafb
works. vesafb did work on some older cards, but not on 8800GT ( which is
getting into age also). So uvesafb is only thing that works for me, at
least until nvidia unifies linux driver or something like it...
