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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. |
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>> *My* suggested solution: |
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>> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is |
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>> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot |
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>> what exactly). |
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> good god no, please, anything but genkernel. |
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> That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an |
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> initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the |
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> person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will |
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> have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no |
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> need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time. |
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>> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. |
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>> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW) |
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> Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of |
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> spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice |
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> of reason in that bug thread.... |
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True. But I was having problem installing 2 servers on top of XenServer. |
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So I cheated and ran 'genkernel initramfs' exactly once. At least I |
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got myself a booting system. :-) |
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When SpanKY's makedev gets stabilized and pushed to baselayout, I'll |
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then happily ditch the genkernel cheat for my next VMs :-) |
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Rgds, |
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Pandu E Poluan |
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