Re: [gentoo-user] startup script use the wrong find command

[Xi Shen]

yes, i installed busybox into the initramfs i created my self. because
i see the initramfs generated by genkernel uses it.

i am using LVM, so i have to use a initramfs. are you suggesting that
i should install all the GNU utilities into the initramfs? i think
that would create a very large initramfs file.


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Friday 04 December 2009 17:25:21 Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Xi Shen writes:
>> > when i boot my system, at the step "Wiping /tmp", it pops up an error
>> > message saying that the find command do not support the '-uid' option.
>> > in the error message, i also see the busybox mark. it looks like it
>> > used the wrong find command.
>>
>> Did you emerge busybox with the make-symlinks USE flag? When your original
>> find is replaced by a link to busybox.
>
> That's unlikely. His box will likely not boot if he did that. If it does boot
> it certainly will not emerge anything. Portage relies on features that are
> present in GNU utilities and are not there in busybox
>
>> Don't know what to do exactly, most probably many other commands will also
>> not work as expected, I guess you need to re-emerge all stuff that
>> provides them, like findutils. There was a thread recently, look for "/bin
>> contains busybox executables after installing busybox-1.13.2" by Amit Dor-
>> Shifer on 2009-11-25.
>
> He likely installed busybox into the initramfs instead of GNU utilities.
>
> initramfs on gentoo is not a technique I recommend. It is designed for a
> general use-case not present in Gentoo[1], and a very few specific cases where
> an initramfs-less setup cannot work[2[
>
> [1] Binary distros cannot know upfront what the end-user has hardware-wise, so
> cannot build drivers for everything imaginable into the kernel. An initramfs
> is an elegant solution, but one which is overkill for Gentoo (the initial
> statement is usually false)
>
> [2] Some specific boot scenarios require an initramfs even on Gentoo - booting
> off raided volumes where drivers are needed at boot time, encrypted / volumes,
> / on an LVM volume and a few others
>
> In almost all other cases it is simpler and easier to dispense with the
> initramfs and build two drivers into the kernel. After all, the user in all
> probability knows exactly what hardware they have
>
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>



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