On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Btw, for the first picture, it says that /usr is not mounted. I > believe that is because my /usr in in /dev/mapper/arch-usr and that > doesn't get mounted until later in the boot process. > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is there any way to choose when to load specific stuff? In gentoo you > could do this by selecting a runlevel by name (sysinit, boot, default, > shutdown). I don't know if this is possible in Arch. imo, you're headed down a path that will just lead to frustration, and is reliant on legacy models/codepaths. *why* do you want to avoid initramfs? it's use enables the kernel to accommodate even the most esoteric setups ... no gain in dropping it, unless you are using it for embedded devices, and even then it's useful. the initramfs does some initialization of the environment, and the various scripts that generate it try to include all sorts of stuff. you may be seeing a black screen because the kernel verbosity is too low or never set, or maybe you pulled a KMS driver into the initramfs in the past ... difficult to know ... maybe udev was probing something you forgot about. the kernel wants to be as dumb as possible about the ridiculous stuff userspace wants to do, and i fully expect the kernel to be dumbed down even further ... i personally don't think the user should have an [official] choice to drop initramfs; IIRC, some modules can't even be built into the kernel because they are mutually exclusive with other variants (symbol clashes), and userspace must decide which should be included. what is the motivation exactly? my grub2 GPT partition is ~128MiB, kinda big, but that still only represents 1/600th of my small, 60GiB disk. what is the benefit you seek? recompiling the kernel to switch from an ext4 to btrfs root sounds pretty annoying to me ;-) -- C Anthony
