>> >> It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this. >> > > Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think. >
If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel, there's still an easy way to create a initrd for your kernel: with genkernel I use this command to compile my pre-configured kernel genkernel --no-clean --no-mrproper \ --makeopts=-j2 --loglevel=5 --install --symlink all To include support for disk labels use the switch --disklabel