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

[Eric Edgar]

This is not a bug.  There are symlinks that point /usr/sbin to /sbin in
the initrd/initramfs.  It works for me.  If it doesnt work for you would
you post the output you are seeing so I can troubleshoot the issue?
Thanks

Rocket

On 17:47 Wed 06 Jul     , Paul Smith wrote:
> OK, I finally got myself back to building--the latest emerge sync caused
> a lot of ebuilds that I had made in my own portdir_overlay to suddenly
> become supported in the default snapshot, which caused build issues.
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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?
>
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