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Duncan wrote: |
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> Yes, for LVM, no, for RAID, at least md/mdp kernel RAID. |
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In theory, yes. In practice, it is unpredictable and flakey. |
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I lost more than a day with a system that used to be able to |
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autoassemble the RAID in kernel and boot it and then simply "changed its |
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mind" and no matter what I did, it wouldn't boot from RAID. |
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No available diagnostics is another hamper, since dmesg can tell you |
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little about what exactly went wrong. |
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In all those cases starting RAID manually went fine. |
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It is nice to be able to use initramfs as some sort for |
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backpack/first-aid-kit/MCGuyver's_toolshed when all else fails. |
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It isn't always simple to boot from another media, especially if you |
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need that particular kernel etc. |
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That's why initramfs is cool. If the system is in good enough shape for |
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grub to grab kernel and initrd, it can run diagnostics and maybe offer |
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some fundamental services ( like named,dhcpd, routing, firewalling etc). |
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> user-vesa-framebuffer, I take it? FWIW, I'm running radeonfb here. But |
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> before it, I was running a very small font on vgacon. It worked |
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> reasonably well, tho radeonfb is certainly more flexible. |
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Well, I have nVidia and have _never_ seen any card on which rivafb |
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works. vesafb did work on some older cards, but not on 8800GT ( which is |
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getting into age also). So uvesafb is only thing that works for me, at |
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least until nvidia unifies linux driver or something like it... |
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