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On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:04:49 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: |
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> Am 03.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> >> Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default |
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> >> to |
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> >> more logical names. |
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> > If the docs had included that little snippet I'd have saved myself many a |
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> > frustrating hour. I'll only look stupid if I tell you how many ;-) |
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> > Anyway, I don't want to hijack the thread. I just wanted to point out that |
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> > raid arrays don't need lvm2 or mdraid present to auto-start, at least not |
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> > on my openrc box which also has no initramfs. |
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> Thanks for your contribution. |
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My pleasure. |
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> I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ... |
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You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it. |
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> I wonder if I speak for more users when I say that all this is kind of |
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> confusing sometimes ... |
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I'm with you there, Stefan. I find the whole RAID and LVM area deeply |
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mysterious, and the docs I've seen only say what to do, not why. I'd still |
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like to find a proper explanation of how it all works. |
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> I am not so far to skip the initramfs -> I don't *know* that, I just |
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> tested removing the line from grub2 and it failed finding the root-fs. |
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I've never had an initramfs, seeing no need in my case to keep /usr on its own |
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partition. |
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> For booting from a plain partition on an SSD I think I shouldn't need an |
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> initramfs? Does it have to do with MBR/GPT as well (the SSD is |
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> still/again MBR, as UEFI booting broke badly for me back then) ? |
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As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is having a |
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separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - sorry. |
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> Maybe I learn more soon ;-) |
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I sometimes say that life is just one long journey of discovery :-) |
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Regards |
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Peter |