Paul Colquhoun writes: > Looking at "initramfs" as a modern Linux replacement for the > "bootable / partition" of traditional Unix systems does make some > sense, even though I think it could be made simpler. > > Fot those opposed to initramfs, would you also object to /boot being > 1) a manditory seperate partition > 2) required to be ext2 (or one of a *very* short list) > 3) having /boot/{bin,sbin,lib} containing local copies of the absolute > minimum boot requirements (i.e. initramfs in a real fs)
I had this on one machine. I used the stuff that Dirk Heinrich offered [*] (he simply calls it initfs), and it sort of worked, but I also got some errors. Anyway, I always wondered why this is not the standard way. Sure, having a single intr{d,amfs} file is convenient, but every time I want to have a look into it, I have to google the cpio syntax in order to extract stuff. While, with an initfs, you simply see everything as plain files in the /boot partition. Wonko [*] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg88055.html