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On Tuesday 28 July 2015 21:18:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:29:18 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote: |
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> > >You may not need an initramfs to run root on btrfs as long as btrfs is |
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> > >compiled into your kernel (I haven't looked into it closely though). |
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> > But I think you do if your btrfs is raid 1. The kernel can't mount |
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> > multidisk btrfs until it done a btrfs device scan in userspace, run |
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> > from initramfs. |
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> According to the btrfs wiki you can pass |
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> device=/dev/sda1,device=/dev/sdb1 on the kernel boot line. |
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Thanks all. |
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I think I'm going to dive straight in and build a new system. First I'll have |
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another go at grub-2, then when that's working I'll start a new build. |
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As far as I can see, /boot can just be on the single sda1, with a duplicate on |
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sdb1 in reserve. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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