Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

[Dale]

Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2012 7:26 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>>>> zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ooops, it sort of snipped a bit much.  lol   Here you go:
>>>>>
>>>>> root@fireball / # zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz
>>>>> # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set
>>>>> root@fireball / #
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like a nope to me.  ;-)
>>>>
>>>> That was the reason for asking for your /usr/src/linux/.config file.
>>>> The udev ebuild ask for:
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_BSG ~DEVTMPFS ~HOTPLUG ~INOTIFY_USER ~NET
>>>> ~PROC_FS ~SIGNALFD ~SYSFS ~!IDE ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED
>>>> ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2"
>>>>
>>>> The dracut ebuild ask for:
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_INITRD ~DEVTMPFS ~MODULES"
>>>>
>>>> So please check that you have all those options (and don't have the
>>>> ones with !), recompile your kernel, and reboot.
>>>>
>>>> Also, the divergence between /boot/kernel... and (hd0,0)/kernel... in
>>>> your grub could be causing  funny things. Check that also.
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>
>>>
>>> OK.  I hate modules.  Can they be built into the kernel?  The only
>>> module I have is nvidia for my video card.
>>>
>>> Also, if you can put this in one email, what about the /dev line in fstab?
>>>
>>> I didn't check the ebuild but I don't recall seeing anything when I
>>> emerged dracut either.  o_O   Maybe we are on to something here.  ^_O
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK DEVTMPFS is not a module. You either turn it on or off. Of course,
>> you'll need a whole-kernel compile, but that's it.
>>
>> If you use menuconfig, IIRC there's another option right under DEVTMPFS' one
>> that offers to mount devtmpfs on boot. If you turn that on, you *might* get
>> away without a /dev in fstab.
>
> Dale doesn't need /dev on fstab (nobody does); I only asked about it
> since I had no information about the dracut failure trying to mount
> /dev.
>
> Now I think we have enough information, and I hope that when Dale
> recompiles his kernel and reboots, everything will work.
>
> Regards.


Storm seems to have slowed down so Dale is about to reboot.  Dale hopes
this init thingy works too.  < crosses fingers, toes, eyes and anything
else crossable >

I also saved the old line that works, just in case.  This is me after
all.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

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