Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jack Morgan <yojack@××××××××××××.jp>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo and LVM
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:43:35
Message-Id: ZVFE8LKQ63NKXTZGXVB3YCBDC07.3c427e7e@r2d2
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo and LVM by Jasmin Buchert
1 2002/01/13 22:08:21, Jasmin Buchert <jasmin@×××××××××.ch> wrote:
2
3 >Hi,
4 >
5 >Just do:
6 >mkdir /tmp/etctmp
7 >mount -t tmpfs none /tmp/etctmp
8 >cd /etc
9 >tar -cpf - * | tar -f - -xvpC /tmp/etctmp
10 >mount -o bind /tmp/etctmp /etc
11 >
12 >After this you should have enough free space in /etc :)
13
14 cool hack!
15
16 >PS: Installing Gentoo from bootdisk onto a root LV does not work. I get
17 >kernel panic while mounting the root LV (has something todo with devfs). Also
18 >the 'lvmcreate_initrd' command does not work while in the build chroot (it
19 >cannot unmount the loopback device).
20
21 I tried for 5 days straight to get this working! My solution was to remove root
22 from LVM. I also had trouble with lvmcreate_initrd. Forcing an unmount didn't
23 help either.
24
25 Thanks
26 jack morgan