initramfs support

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

I wrote:
> Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> 
>> Anything else that it should support?
> 
> 1) Some users may want to use EVMS instead of LVM2. The packages conflict, 
> but on-disk formats are the same. Unfortunately, I am not an EVMS specialist 
> (and it is not on the CD), so no immediate help is available.
> 
> 2) Software RAID (with the help of mdadm), even if the disk driver is a 
> module (so that in-kernel autoassembly doesn't work). LVM2 on RAID.
> 
> 3) NFS root (including v4, which is not on the CD).
> 

4) Encrypted root (with dm-crypt, cryptoloop, or loop-aes). Note that this 
requires "loadkeys" and keymaps in the initramfs. Also, I have never tried 
this, but the 6.2-5 CD (not 6.3-X!) includes support for loop-aes.

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Alexander E. Patrakov