Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote:
>>>>> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is coming
>>>>> > from several upstreams.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad.   ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I can only agree!
>>>> I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gentoo).
>>>> This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /.
>>>
>>> It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that
>>> if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread
>>> that followed it.
>>
>> ...and now I know that my entirely UUID-driven fstab may stop working,
>> if they choose not to add that particular "tweak/improvement".
>
> ...or you could, you know, use the genkernel generated initramfs, or
> dracut. Anyway, probably UUIDs and labels will be added to the minimal
> initramfs (it is my undrestanding it's kinda easy to do). The
> important thing is that it will be still supported.

I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very
early in my system's lifetime. I hadn't heard about dracut until
today. I still don't know anything about it, really.

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