ramroot
Load root file system to ram during boot. (by arcmags)
dracut
dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure (by dracutdevs)
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254 | 522 | |
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0.0 | 7.9 | |
over 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ramroot
Posts with mentions or reviews of ramroot.
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Arch Linux done right
Now I can use ramroot and run the whole OS on RAM.
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Linux install to a USB
Anyway, I wrote and maintain a guide to make this setup: https://mags.zone/help/arch-usb.html. I also made a package to optionally load everything to RAM during boot: https://github.com/arcmags/ramroot.
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Tips on: Arch linux on usb as a daily driver
I wrote a tool to load root entirely into RAM on Arch. It checks available RAM and prompts on boot.
- How to make rescue/recovery partition that copies into RAM (live cd)?
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USB stick longevity as a boot drive
You could also use the Arch Linux guide above and install Arch Linux on the USB drive, making sure the boot and root partition sizes are less than the amount of ram in the machine you are booting on. Then install ramroot which will load up your system into ram on boot. This will mean the system runs off ram and not USB. If you need to make changes, install applications or update, you could boot it normally so it runs off USB as any changes won't be saved if it is booted into ram. If your home folder is on another partition on the USB, I don't think that is loaded into ram on boot so you can still save files to it and any personalisations should also be kept between boots.
dracut
Posts with mentions or reviews of dracut.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-09.
- Locked root partition
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ZFSBootMenu boots root dataset just fine but doesn't ask for password even though it's encrypted???
Upstream has been telling people not to use a central configuration file for 8 years so nobody should really be putting anything in there to begin with. One can make a reasonable argument that ZFSBootMenu ought to override the configuration file just like it overrides the configuration drop-in directory, but another can make a reasonable argument that people who really know what they want may wish to load common configuration options for both their system and ZBM images in /etc/dracut.conf.
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Can't turn off the machine after install with full disk encryption
I absolutely have no idea... Seems like somehow something is not supported. You should create an issue in the dracut repo: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues. That's something you should probably everywhere like I did in my issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/11ofqt2/booting_with_dinit. The void community can sometimes be really unhelpful so I hope you will get help there.
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What happened to the bugzilla 1529311? it's about AMD microcode
bug 1529311 is closed as duplicate of bug 1476039 which was fixed by https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0964 included in dracut-033-535.el7. These patches were mentioned in 1476039: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/19453dc8744e6a59725c43b61b2e3db01cb4c57c and https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/261. Also it was mentioned that it was fixed in
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/boot/initramfs.. and the early boot process
It's a shell script that sets up some basics and runs an event loop to run hooks that eventually lead to the availability of your root device.
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Can bluetooth keyboards work to enter luks password?
dracut can build initrd with bluetooth support
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Has anyone setup a private tracker?
The documentation is super minimal, but the livenet module supports torrent files using the live:torrent: URL syntax.
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Are cheap wireless keyboards from Lazada and Shopee compatible for Linux? (POV: I live in the Philippines and I have to do online shopping cuz of the pandemic)
Nope, all these environments are missing initial device configuration required for keyboard to be able to connect. (There was an attempt to add bluetooth support into dracut, that didn't go well)
- Failed to Start setup virtual console
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Dracut kernel_cmdline not working with LVM on LUKS.
I get exactly this error. So it turns out, the decryption depends on a systemd unitsystemd-cryptsetup-generator, which will not read any embedded cmdline parameters, only ones passed in the commandline so when the commandline parameter is asking to decrypt things, it is not generated.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ramroot and dracut you can also consider the following projects:
wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.
mkinitcpio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)