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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> My partitions are something like this. Normal partitions, /boot and |
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>> root itself. /usr and /var on LVM. |
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> Gentoo dropped support for booting without mounting /usr early in boot |
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> a while back. That isn't to say that it would have instantly stopped |
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> working, but there is no requirement for package maintainers to |
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> support this configuration, and many upstreams have been moving in |
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> directions that will tend to break this. |
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> There are many ways to get around this. The most common is to mount |
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> /usr from your initramfs. Another option is to run a script early |
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> during boot to mount /usr, ensuring that the necessary tools to do so |
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> are on your root partition. Another option is to put /usr on your |
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> root partition. I'm sure there are other options as well, but in |
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> general you can't always rely on your root partition being able to |
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> mount /usr these days. |
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> Rich |
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Yea, I went through this before. Thing is tho, those init thingys have |
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a history of screwing up with me even before I started using Gentoo. It |
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was one reason I switched distros. I was using Mandrake before Gentoo. |
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When I tried a while back, the init thingy failed and I couldn't boot |
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with it. Once I got it working, I didn't even touch it again. No clue |
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why it stopped working even tho it worked for a while. At some point, |
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it'll fail and I can't boot either way, with or without a init thingy. |
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At that point, it could be new distro time. I like Gentoo but as I have |
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said before, when a OS stops suiting my needs, like booting up, then |
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I'll switch. This computer is a doorstop when the OS doesn't boot. |
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I've made some progress but the latest dracut won't include the stuff it |
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needs so I had to go back to a older version. No clue why the old one |
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will work and the new one won't. I've played with the config files but |
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the new one is persistent on not including what I need. |
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[ebuild U ~] sys-kernel/dracut-040-r3 [034-r4] USE="-debug |
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(-selinux) -systemd% (-device-mapper%*) (-net%)" |
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DRACUT_MODULES="(-biosdevname%) (-bootchart%) (-btrfs%) (-caps%) |
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(-cifs%) (-crypt%) (-crypt-gpg%) (-crypt-loop%) (-dash%) (-dmraid%) |
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(-dmsquash-live%) (-gensplash%) (-iscsi%) (-livenet%) (-lvm%) (-mdraid%) |
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(-multipath%) (-nbd%) (-nfs%) (-plymouth%) (-ssh-client%) (-syslog%) |
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(-systemd%)" 0 KiB |
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[ebuild R ~] sys-kernel/dracut-034-r4 USE="device-mapper -debug |
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-net (-selinux)" DRACUT_MODULES="lvm* -biosdevname -bootchart -btrfs |
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-caps -cifs -crypt -crypt-gpg -crypt-loop -dash -dmraid -dmsquash-live |
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-gensplash -iscsi -livenet -mdraid -multipath -nbd -nfs -plymouth |
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-ssh-client -syslog -systemd" 0 KiB |
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Top one seems to leave out lvm no matter what and the bottom includes |
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them just fine. Old one it is, which puts me behind from the get go. |
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Before I reboot again, going to update some install DVDs. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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