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["David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>]

I've been recently developing an mk_initrd script that creates a small initrd
so that a user can either use it for rescue purposes, for loading modules 
before 
the root filesystem is mounted, setting up lvm or raid for the root 
filesystem, 
whatever...

Currently what I have is in the linux-new spell, it doens't have any sanity
checks, or options of anykind other than the version which is the first
argument.  The script honestly doesn't do much but provide busybox and the
modules using cramfs to create the initrd.

In the past I was thinking about integrating this script into the linux-new 
spell as an option of course. However, I can see the options for the initrd 
get
out of hand really quickly.  Options like what filesystem should it be, to 
what 
binaries and libs should be included, and finally what splash image to cat 
onto 
the end of the initrd.

These options (which is one of the things Source Mage users love ;) lead me 
to 
believe that this should really be a separate spell so that users can taylor 
the
initrd to their specialized needs.

This new spell of course would deprecate the boot-theme spell.

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in seeing a spell like this.  
Also, if so would they contribute more boot themes images, jpg's preferably.
The classic Source Mage jpg that is already in the boot-theme spell is great
but I'd like a little variaty sometimes ;)

- David Brown


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