On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 18:18 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like .... > > I love genkernel, it just makes life so much easier, you don't have > enter every command manually. And still keeps it the gentoo-way: you can > configure everything so that it does exactly what you wan't. > > Just take a look at /etc/genkernel.conf > genkernel can do even more stuff for you. > For example include a copy of /etc/mdadm.conf into your initramfs so > that the initramfs can mount your software raid (even with metadata > higher than 0.90 :) - this is where the kernel raid auto assembly fails). > Or enable a splash theme for a graphical boot - if you like that sort of > thing. > > I'm sure you're gonna love it to after you have used it for some time. >
There are two problems with genkernel - historicly it was greeted with enthusiasm ... until you got an unbootable system which with early versions happened all too often - thats why I dropped it and have only just started to experiment with it again because of the /usr changes. Secondly, it handles only simple cases and cant do (for instance) in-kernel suspend to disk without manual intervention - there are probably a number of other cases too. BillK
