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On Thursday 22 February 2007 01:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Or you could dp it the way Boyd does it - with his / on an lvm group. To |
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> do that he needs an initramfs which has drivers for at least his disk |
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> bus, his disk adapter, the filesystem on / and lvm before his kernel |
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> can access /. Genkernel is just an easy automated way to do that. |
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Or it would be, but the last initramfs it generated for me wouldn't start |
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my |
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md0 (whole-disk software RAID via mdadm) device, which is part of the |
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volume |
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group holding /. [I should try again, perhaps genkernel has gotten smart |
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enough to read my mdadm.conf, ala Debian, and start whole-disk software |
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RAID.] |
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Right now, I get dumped to a shell prompt inside the initramfs each time my |
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system boots, I then have to start my volume group manually in partial mode |
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to get (RO) access to the block device / is on. [I don't seem to even have |
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the right tools inside the initramfs to bring up whole-disk software RAID, |
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or |
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at least I haven't figured out how.] Then Gentoo tries to boot but fails |
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because it can't mount / as RW (lvm marks lvs in vgs started in partial |
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mode |
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as RO block devices) although it doesn't bail out quickly, so it thinks |
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certain services (like localmount) have started when they haven't. |
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I then log in as root and bring all the lvs to RW status, remount /, |
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restart |
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the 3-4 services that Gentoo thinks are up, and let it continue. |
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In short, my boot process is fsck'd, but I don't reboot enough to have it |
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really bother me. But, this thread isn't really about my troubles even if |
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some of my setup *is* useful as examples of why you might need an |
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initramfs. |
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[My fsck'd setup also shows how powerful the layered startup in *nix is. |
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Failing to find your C: drive in Windows is not really recoverable without |
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boot media.] |
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