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On 12/31/2012 17:10, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic |
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> OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states |
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> "Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there |
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> with UUID, but it works with LABEL as well, I have tried it. |
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> Also, *don't* build your kernel *without* initramfs, because the |
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> kernel by default doesn't support mounting by LABELs or UUIDs (I think |
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> so, I've had failures w/o initrd)." |
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> While I don't know Nilesh's background, I have no reason to really |
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> doubt what he says here I seem to find a lot of posts on the web where |
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> people mount using UUID and they aren't clear as to whether they have |
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> an initramfs or not. |
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> I'll consider this solved for now with one caveat that it's unclear |
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> when you build the initramfs what tools have to be placed within it to |
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> make the following true. |
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> 1) No initramfs - mount by device name only |
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> 2) With initramfs - mount by device name, label or UUID. |
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> Thanks VERY MUCH for taking the time to find this. I'm removing the |
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> offending option from my grub.config file. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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The other wiki has a page[1] about building an initramfs that includes a |
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section on writing a linuxrc script to support exactly that. I have |
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since switched to Genkernel, but I used to have a hand-built initramfs |
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containing very little besides that script block. |
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[1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs#UUID.2FLABEL_Root_Mounting |
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