On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Michael Mol wrote: > To the OP. I would use dracut. I ran into trouble but I found out > later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut > init thingy to mess up. I strongly suspect that if I had known to get > rid of the previous attempt, it would have worked the first time. My > previous attempt was the one that was built into the kernel itself. > Lets just say there was a huge fight and I missed it. Grub was telling > one thing to load and the kernel was trying to load something else. I'm > sure it was a nice fight.
The principal reason I'm not using dracut: * sys-kernel/dracut Available versions: ~014-r2!t ~017-r1!t ~017-r2!t ~017-r3!t ~018!t {debug device-mapper dracut_modules_biosdevname dracut_modules_btrfs dracut_modules_caps dracut_modules_crypt dracut_modules_crypt-gpg dracut_modules_dmraid dracut_modules_dmsquash-live dracut_modules_gensplash dracut_modules_iscsi dracut_modules_livenet dracut_modules_lvm dracut_modules_mdraid dracut_modules_multipath dracut_modules_nbd dracut_modules_nfs dracut_modules_plymouth dracut_modules_ssh-client dracut_modules_syslog net selinux} Homepage: http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org Description: Generic initramfs generation tool None of the versions have been marked stable. Genkernel, on the other hand, has. -- :wq