spacerunner5 / bliss-initramfs

An utility that allows one to boot their Gentoo root filesystem from Native ZFS (ZFS on Linux)

Bliss Initramfs 7.1.5

Maintained fork of Bliss Initramfs

originally designed by Jonathan Vasquez (fearedbliss) for Gentoo Linux

Description

This script generates an initramfs image with all the included files and dependencies needed to mount your filesystem.

It was designed primarily to be a simple alternative to genkernel or dracut for booting Gentoo Linux on Native ZFS (Not FUSE) and supports a few other combinations such as LUKS, ZFS on LUKS, RAID, and LVM.

All you need to do is run "./mkinitrd", select the options you want "a-la-carte", and then tell the initramfs via your bootloader parameters in what order you want those features to be trigerred in. Check the USAGE file for examples.

License

Released under the GNU General Public License v3 or Later.

Dependencies

Please have the following installed:

• dev-lang/python 3.3 or greater
• app-arch/cpio
• app-shells/bash
• sys-apps/kmod
• sys-apps/grep
• sys-fs/udev OR sys-fs/eudev OR sys-apps/systemd (UUIDs, Labels, etc)
• sys-apps/kbd (Keymap support)
• sys-fs/zfs (ZFS support)
• sys-fs/mdadm (RAID support)
• sys-fs/lvm2 (LVM support)
• sys-fs/cryptsetup (LUKS support)
• app-crypt/gnupg (LUKS support)

For more information/instructions check the USAGE file.

Gentoo Ebuilds

sys-kernel/bliss-initramfs: Updated gentoo ebuilds are available at the overlay ste7677/gentoo-overlay-ste76.