Re: initramfs

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 5:34 PM, ATuin Developer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hej!
>
> Firstly, I just want to greet everyone in the list, I installed GoboLinux
> yesterday night hopping to have a good time (like in the past :)
>
> For the moment i installed it in a no-encrypted partition so it lives with
> the slackware distribution that I'm using as teproduction system (using
> LUKS+LVM), my plan is to replace it with GoboLinux completely. I manage to
> install cryptsetup/lvm2 to resize the LUKS partition and the LVM but
> obviously now i need a initrd image too be able to decrypt the root
> partition and mount the LVM volume at boot time.
> Seems that GoboLinux doesn't use any kind of initrd to boot up, does it
> have any specific tool to create the initrd? or should i create it
> manually?.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Aitor.
>
>
Hi Aitor,

You are right: we do not use an initrd image on the installed system.
However, we do have one in the LiveCD image (GoboLinux-015-i686.iso). Mount
the LiveCD image somewhere and you will find the initrd image in
isolinux/initrd. That should be a good starting point for you.

Lucas

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