On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Zachary Kotlarek <z...@kotlarek.com> wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: > >> If we do support it, I would also like an option for initramless setups as >> well. > > > To what end? I don't mean to be argumentative, but I really don't see why > people see a non-initramfs boot as an important or useful goal. What > features/benefits does it provide, other than you don't have to run cpio one > time when building your system? > > Zach
simplicity, mostly. Just never felt like something I needed for a fully working Linux System. I've done usb/raid booting without it, only use case I ever had was for bootable cd's. (and it sounds like LVM needs it as well). In fact, the last bootable cd I used, I just used /dev/sr0 (which could break easly). Every time I have done a initrd, has been a special case and never my main LFS System. I have built a few initrd/initramfs systems over the ages, tinkering and learning. Usually I setup a very basic /sbin/init script that sets itself up, mounts root in /mnt/root, then switches over to it. (Most of my initrd/initramfs's were pre udev). I really like that one I did a couple months ago. There was a kernel option for mounting something on /dev that came with entries (devtmpfs). kept things simple (rootonly system I put together. Forget what it was for now...). They always felt like I was building a mini lfs system, where it's sole purpose was to boot the main lfs system. Duplication of work. I frequently recompile my kernel as well. It's easier to keep track of one component, as opposed to 2. Changing my opinion a bit, one feature that I have been missing is the ability to mount based on UUID instead of the partition. Just came to me as I was writing this. Would be great for dynamic devices that could change on the fly (and what I use for everything except for my root partition). -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
