Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How is initrd built?

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 17:47 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Then, I ran into a problem with the very latest kernel (2.6.12-r4) where
> the genpatches version it required (7) was not available on the gentoo
> site or any of the mirrors.  I dropped back to the 2.6.11 kernel using a
> package.mask file.

Hrrrmn... it is working here... strange.

> Anyway.  On booting I tried to add the unionfs flag to the boot line and
> noticed this bug in linuxrc:
>
>       unionfs)
> 	  if [ ! -x /sbin/unionctl ]
> 	  then
> 	      USE_UNIONFS_NORMAL=0
> 	      bad_msg 'Unionctl not found: aborting use of unionfs!'
> 	  else
> 	      USE_UNIONFS_NORMAL=1
> 	  fi
> 	  ;;
>
> But, when I install this unionctl IS there: it lives in /usr/sbin, not
> /sbin.
>
>       unionfs\=*)
> 	  if [ ! -x /sbin/unionctl ]
>
> Ditto here.
>
> I know this is in genkernel not catalyst; should I file a bug or is this
> good enough?

So it is in /usr/sbin within the initrd?  Yeah, that definitely should
be filed as a bug and assigned to genkernel@g.o, if you would.

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Chris Gianelloni
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