Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:04:48
Message-Id: 4F7238BA.1060406@gmail.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought by Mike Edenfield
1 Mike Edenfield wrote:
2 >> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com]
3 >
4 >> Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other post.
5 >> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another
6 >> distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move
7 >> everything to / and hope it doesn't ever screw up right after I go to bed and
8 >> full up / with errors in the messages file.
9 >
10 >> I had this happen once. Having /var on it's own partition was the only thing
11 >> that saved my butt.
12 >
13 > Ok, silly question time: if this is a concern for you, why not leave /var on its own partition? Just merge / and /usr and leave it at that?
14 >
15 > --Mike
16 >
17 >
18 >
19
20
21 Post crossing but I wanted to put / on ext4, /boot on ext2 and
22 everything else on LVM. I been wanting to do that for a long while but
23 wanted to learn LVM pretty well first. I'm trying to learn this init
24 thingy to but it's not working to well so far.
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)
29
30 --
31 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
32 how you interpreted my words!
33
34 Miss the compile output? Hint:
35 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"