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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:31:06
Message-Id: 4F959EF1.6080006@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs by Michael Mol
1 Michael Mol wrote:
2 > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I
3 > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own
4 > initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my
5 > systems ready before that.
6 >
7 > Now, having looked at the pertinent documentation, it looks like the
8 > command I need to run is:
9 >
10 > genkernel --lvm --mdadm --disklabel initramfs
11 >
12 > and then add the initramfs to my grub setup.
13 >
14 > The trouble is, genkernel dies on me. I tried for some feedback in
15 > #gentoo-chat, and DrEeevil gave me two clues:
16 >
17 > 13:34 <+DrEeevil> that shouldn't even be possible
18 > 13:36 <+DrEeevil> mikemol: looks like static linking didn't on your system
19 >
20 > I don't know where to take things from here. I'm hesitant to file a
21 > bug on b.g.o, because the tail end of genkernel.log specifically says
22 > not to file build errors as bug reports.
23 >
24 > So...any ideas? This is an amd64 mostly-stable system, and dracut is
25 > still masked on amd64, which is why I'm trying to get genkernel
26 > working.
27 >
28 > I've attached genkernel.log
29 >
30
31
32 If I read the -dev mailing list correctly, they plan to still support
33 /usr without a init thingy. After all the mess I went through, we may
34 not need the init thingy after all.
35
36 Go figure.
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-) :-)
41
42 --
43 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
44 how you interpreted my words!
45
46 Miss the compile output? Hint:
47 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs Michael Scherer <a6702894@××××××××××××××.at>