Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

[Bruce Schultz]

On 16 May 2014 7:46:29 PM AEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
>Am 15.05.2014 20:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger
><lists@×××××.at> wrote:
>>> Am 15.05.2014 20:05, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>>
>>>> With -H, you don't get the kernel cmdline, and therefore your
>kernel
>>>> cannot load your LVM volumes since it doesn't know their... names?
>I
>>>> don't knot the terminology.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, you need to set --hostonly-cmdline (or
>>>> hostonly_cmdline="yes" in the config file), *besides* -H.
>>>
>>> ok ... I pulled your changes (kerninst) from github ... on the web I
>see
>>> it, but it doesn't get into my copy here ... strange.
>>>
>>> As I don't need it right now, I will (a) wait or (b) edit manually.
>>>
>>> No problem.
>>
>> I actually *removed* -H from kerninst. That should be configured in
>> the user's dracut.conf; now I have:
>>
>> hostonly="yes"
>> hostonly_cmdline="yes"
>>
>> in my dracut.conf.
>
>Yes, I understood ... thanks.
>
>Aside from that a more general question:
>
>Does it it any way help to have a *small* (= as small as possible)
>initramfs?
>
>Maybe on embedded systems but on the big multi-GB-ram-machines we use
>it
>doesn't make much difference, right?
>
>I ask because in all my reorganizing furor I also thought that now with
>btrfs only I could get rid of "lvm mdraid" as dracut-modules. I can try
>... ;-) (don't call me "ricer")

If you have a multi-disk btrfs, I think you need to add the btrfs dracut module. At least that's how I remember it, but its been a while & my memory could be failing me, or it could well have changed since then.

Bruce
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