On Jan 14, 2012, at 3:58 PM, William Tracy wrote: > My 2 cents, FWIW: Cover initramfs in BLFS, and include an explicit reference > to that section early in the LFS chapter on the kernel.
I think that makes sense. I'd personally go for full integration, but so long
as users are made aware of the choice at the appropriate point in the process I
don't see a problem with the details being in a side-band document. Other than
the maintenance of the document and coordination with the mainline; in the past
this sort of "hint" documentation has not always gotten much attention in the
maintenance/update cycle.
> I would love to see initramfs covered by Linux From Scratch (it would be
> *really* handy for LFS-based liveCD/flashdrive systems) but I really don't
> see it belonging in a "normal" LFS system.
If the goal is simplicity, I'd argue that maintaining and supporting two
different versions of the boot sequence may well be more complicated creating a
single version that works everywhere.
Want to put LFS on a LiveCD -- no changes required. Want to boot from
LVM/RAID/encryption -- no changes required. Want to boot a BIOS system with a
single IDE disk -- no changes required. Need to load firmware to make your
storage HBA work -- just throw it in the initramfs firmware directory.
Zach
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