On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:30:14AM -0500, Mitt Green wrote:

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> I had been playing with CRUX for a while, it is a source-based distro
> where the installer only puts the core of the system (userland), they compile
> their own kernel right after and where the packages are compiled from sources
> but with resolving dependencies (no binaries at all), slow but simple,
> anyway, they don't have initramfs (initrd) on the install media.
> I, having ext4 and SATA drivers compiled as modules, immediately
> caught a kernel panic.

Thanks for pointing CRUX out Mitt. However, installing from sources is
probably not what an average Devuan user would like to do :)

I think that there is no real alternative to initrd/initramfs for a
general-purpose kernel, as those included in the install image of a
distro. At the same time, nothing prevents a user from compiling and
installing her own preferred kernel, with or without initramfs. There
is no additional support to be provided, except from the kernel
sources, which are already there (and do not need to be packaged in a
.deb, for that matter...).

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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