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Hi. |
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I'm trying to get my gentoo isntallation to work, but I'm just ending up |
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pulling my hair out. |
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The setup I'm going for is a single disk, with two partitions |
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One 100MB partition for /boot |
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and the rest of the disk (~120GB) for LVM |
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I've used the standard gentoo installation handbook + "Gentoo LVM2 |
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installation" <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml> + gentoo wiki |
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"HOWTO Install Gentoo on an LVM2 root partition" |
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<http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_on_an_LVM2_root_partition#Make_your_initrd> |
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and some random googeling |
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From what I gather, I need an initrd image to boot with, so that it can |
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load neccecary modules to be able to read the logical volumes. |
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I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. |
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The entry in the gentoo wiki is inkomplete (the links to the precompiled |
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binaries are broken) |
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when I try to run |
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mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 |
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2.6.16-gentoo-r9 |
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I allways get |
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no temporary directory could be found |
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(I'm runniing this from the live cd) |
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In conclusion: |
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how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? |
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