On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
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El Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:45:34 +0000
Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> escribió:
> = Features/DracutHostOnly =
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DracutHostOnly
>
> Feature owner(s): Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com>
>
> Only create "host-only" initramfs images. A generic fallback image
> should be installed by anaconda on installation/update and never ever
> be removed.
>
> == Detailed description ==
> Current initramfs images contain most of the kernel drivers to boot
> from any hardware. This results in a very big initramfs, which takes
> a long time to load on system start and a long time to create on
> kernel updates. Switching to host-only will improve the situation. To
> cope with hardware change, a boot entry "Rescue System" should be
> installed with a full fledged initramfs also containing debug tools.
> This boot entry can then be used to recover from hardware changes and
> also from unforseen software failure after updates.
as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this should
be a non-starter.
It can be generated at install time.