Switching from physical partition to lvm

digrouz

For several reasons, I want to move from physical partition to lvm.

I've build myself an initrd (which was painfull and borring to update) which is working but I would like to know if there is a way to build the initrd automacally using a tool. Something like mkinitrd. I saw it's available in portage but is it usable in gentoo?
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ianw1974 · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject:

I always just used genkernel, but it might not be the most efficient way. But it worked for me when I was using a system with LVM.
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digrouz · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

in fact, i just discovered that genkernel can be used only to generate the initrd and not the kernel, that what I wanted.
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digrouz · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:28 am Post subject:

it works with genkernel.

Some friends of mine told me to not use genkernel but more designed for generating livecd, is that true? Should build the initrd myself?
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:11 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.