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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> This is my issue as well. I tried to make a init* to deal with this and |
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>> have yet to get one to work, not one single working boot up. I have tried |
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>> different howtos and not one of them produced anything that works. I have |
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>> not found a dracut howto that makes any sense either. Sorry but genkernel |
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>> left a bad taste in my mouth ages ago. |
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> While I think that the direction we're moving in (/usr on root or use |
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> an initramfs) is inevitable, I do agree that it needs some |
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> improvement. |
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> I've gotten Dracut to work fine in VMs (even with fairly complex |
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> setups), but every time I try it on my server it doesn't set up the |
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> raid for some reason, and drops me to a dash shell. If I just run |
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> mdadm_auto at that point it takes about 15 seconds to find and setup |
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> my raid, and just typing exit boots the system just fine. I keep it |
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> as an option in grub so that whenever my raid device numbers get mixed |
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> up (seems to happen every other month for no apparent reason) I can |
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> boot the system, since dracut does use the mdadm.conf and UUIDs to put |
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> everything in the right place and find the right root (something you |
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> can't do without an initramfs). One of these days I'll figure out how |
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> to hack an mdadm_auto into the script as a last-ditch measure and then |
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> I'll just have to deal with a one-minute delay. |
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> For being the wave of the future it seems like the only documentation |
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> Dracut has is a single page website with a few paragraphs of info. |
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> I think the bottom line is that the future may look inevitable, but it |
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> isn't actually here yet. I advocate being ready for the future, but |
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> let's try not to force its arrival before everything is mature (though |
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> having it in portage as an option is completely in the spirit of |
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> Gentoo). |
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> Rich |
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I installed dracut and it did something, although I'm not sure what |
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yet. I googled until I think google should be tired of me to find docs |
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to help. Getting it to run was on one page, then figuring out some |
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options was on yet another page, then grub was on yet another. I don't |
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know yet if some of these are outdated or anything so I don't know if it |
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is going to work or just blow up something. Please, don't ask me what it |
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did. I said I did it, I didn't say I understand it. If it is broken or |
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breaks in the future, I'm screwed. (Sort of starting to wonder why I |
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left Mandriva now. I could have swore I wanted to be rid of init* stuff |
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and make my on freakin kernels. ) |
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I might also add for those considering dracut being the official way, it |
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is keyworded at this point. I would think someone needs to get this |
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stable or whatever needs doing before telling folks to use this. It may |
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work fine but if that is the case, then it needs to be unkeyworded. |
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Spell check doesn't like our terms here. |
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I think the future is actually taking several steps backward. That |
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point has been discussed to death tho. |
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I hope Sven has his thinking hat on. Maybe I can help some with the |
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docs. If it works for me, it should work for most. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |