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David W Noon wrote: |
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> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] |
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> InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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>>> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no |
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>>> longer a problem. Sorted. |
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> And /var ?? |
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>> But what about using LVM? People was all for me using it a while back |
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>> and I want to use it, see other post, but now because of this, I'm not |
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>> supposed to. |
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> I promised you (plural) an easy initramfs solution a few months back. |
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> I have an initramfs image of 1.6MiB that supports LVM and |
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> mounts /usr, /var and any other LVM volume or partition you wish. I |
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> have been able to boot with it since about January (hardware issues on |
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> my development box permitting). I will release a Python script to |
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> build it from a single command in the next 10 days or 2 weeks. The |
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> real chore will be writing the documentation (as with most software |
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> development efforts). |
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> For me, the best part is its diminutive size, as my /boot partitions |
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> are only 32MiB each. The fact that it works every time should make you |
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> feel secure against whatever the udev developers can throw at us. |
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The reason I want to use dracut is because that is what is supposed to |
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be supported by Gentoo. I also read where others have used it with no |
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problems. I was also hoping to learn how it works, or is supposed to |
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work, so that if something happens I can figure out a fix for it. So |
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far, I broke it. lol |
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I know genkernel is another approach but I just learned to hate that a |
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long time ago. While not as bad as hal, it's a close second. |
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I might also add, mine does boot, it's just that the system doesn't work |
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right when I do boot with it. From what I understand, it doesn't make |
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sense as to why it doesn't work. In a way what it does is really |
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simple. Mount /, then mount /usr and whatever else, then switch to the |
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new / and boot. I have no idea why that makes me unable to su to root. |
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From what I have read, once it does the switch root thing, it's done |
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and should work the same. |
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Well, I'm going to go have a good soak in the tub on this mess. Sooth |
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my nerves a bit. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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