<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/16 Allen Kistler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:an037-ooai8@yahoo.com">an037-ooai8@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For the first time in a while, I've gotten rawhide to install. Upon booting, I noticed there's an extra initrd, named initrd-generic, in /boot. Plus it's huge by classic initrd standards.<br>
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What is it? How is it intended to be used? I haven't found much on it other than dracut generates it.<br>
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Does mkinitrd still generate the regular initrd, but dracut generates initrd-generic? If so, then we've got both so we can test the dracut "generic" version and have something to fall back on if it's screwed up, true? I did an @core installation, which does not currently include dracut (even if it ever will), so the "generic" initrd seems to come straight out of the kernel rpm.<br>
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I unpacked the "generic" version to have a quick look at it. I haven't examined it closely to see exactly why it's 5 or 6 times bigger, but it's certainly got a lot more directories. So does "generic" mean it's not custom made at rpm install time, but instead at rpm package generation time? From the fp.o [[Dracut]] page, it *seems* the intention is to generate initrd at install, as it is now with mkinitrd, but with dracut instead.<br>
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BTW, I used the "generic" version to boot. It seemed to work okay, other than some cosmetic LF vs. CRLF issues with the boot messages.<br>
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I've made some guesses and read between some lines here.<br>
How much is wrong?<br>
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Thanks for any info.</blockquote><div><br>if it is what i _hope_ it is, it's an initrd to be used if the system is moved to a different hardware. (so that os will still boot. then we can build a hardware specific initrd, aka optimized.) but i'm just trying to guess here :)<br>
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