dr-diem / bliss-initramfs

Generates an initramfs image with all files needed to boot your Gentoo Linux system installed on Encrypted/OpenZFS. This program was designed as a simple alternative to genkernel for this use case.

Bliss Initramfs 9.4.1

Jonathan Vasquez (fearedbliss)

Designed for Gentoo Linux

Maintained by Ian Silvester (dr-diem)

Description

Generates an initramfs image with all files needed to boot your Gentoo Linux system installed on Encrypted/OpenZFS. This program was designed as a simple alternative to genkernel for this use case.

Usage

All you need to do is run the application and pass it the kernel you want to build the initramfs for. That's it!

$ ./mkinitrd.py -k $(uname -r)

License

Released under the Simplified BSD License.

Dependencies

Please have the following installed:

Required Dependencies

• dev-lang/python 3.6+
• app-arch/cpio
• app-shells/bash
• sys-apps/kmod (lzma support required to read compressed kernel modules)
• sys-apps/grep
• app-arch/gzip
• sys-fs/zfs
• sys-fs/zfs-kmod
• sys-fs/udev OR sys-fs/eudev OR sys-apps/systemd (UUIDs, Labels, etc)
• sys-apps/kbd (Keymap support)

For more information/instructions check the USAGE file.

Contributions

Poetry (Virtual Environments & Dependency Management)

You can easily install Poetry on your machine and then run poetry install from the root of this repository to have poetry automatically create a virtual environment and install any Python based dependencies for the project (Including all development dependencies like black and beautysh).

Black (Code Formatting - Python)

If making changes to any Python code, make sure to run black on the code. The correct black version should have been installed after having ran poetry install.

Beautysh (Code Formatting - Bash)

If making changes to any bash files (i.e files/init), please run beautysh on that file and re-test your changes. If it still works, you can submit your PR.