On Saturday, April 09, 2016 05:15:08 PM James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 > > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I never really got the mentality that using an initramfs is a > > > burden. > > > > > One more piece of software that can go wrong. You have to > > > > maintain+configure it; e.g. sync software and library versions with > > what's on the rest of the system. > > Errm, have you ever actually used dracut? > > dracut --kver 4.5 > > Wow, that was hard! It requires zero configuration and that's true even > if you've got LVM on top of LUKS on top of RAID or something equally > complex. If you're already running that kernel version, you don't even > need to specify it.
I actually write my own initramfs because neither dracut not genkernel end up with a convenient boot system. I have 2 disks, both encrypted. I prefer only to enter the decryption password once. Both Dracut and Genkernel insist on asking for the password/key for every single disk. The ONLY reason why I feel an initramfs is warranted is because of the encryption. Without that, it should not be necessary. -- Joost
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