Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

[Michael Mol]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:
> On 2012-12-24, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt> wrote:
>>> On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote:
>>>
> [...]
>>>> From my understanding, if I upgrade my system to the later version of
>>>> udev and bypass the init system, my system will not boot.  I have not
>>>> tested the theory but that is what people have been saying.  Not only is
>>>> my /usr separate but it is on LVM partitons too.
>>>
>>> Your problem would be LVM (if that's an issue at all, as I said I don't
>>> know LVM), you'd not need udevd to mount /usr if it were a regular
>>> partition.
>>
>> "you wouldn't have this problem if you did *something else*" is a
>> terrible response. There are very good reasons to use LVM. There are
>> good (IMO, at least) reasons to avoid using an initr* on Gentoo.
>> (Those reasons are sprinkled through the thread, some spoken by me,
>> some spoken by others.)
>
> A shame that was not what I meant at all, the only thing I said was
> "yes, the problem is probably caused by it being on LVM, not because of
> /usr being separate". Just pointing the specific part of Dale's config
> that would be the problem.

Miscommunication, then. Happens. :)




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