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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems
Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 13:22:24
Message-Id: 2091763.rfnJiq5zTp@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Sunday 04 May 2014 12:37:02 J. Roeleveld wrote:
2 > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:53:35 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:04:49 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
4 > > > I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ...
5 > >
6 > > You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it.
7 >
8 > For mission-critical systems, I would have done a clean re-install already
9 > with data copied back from a backup. More then 24 hours is a deadline.
10
11 That's what I was doing when I discovered the IRQ16 misbehaviour. After that
12 it was a matter of finding the cause. As it happens, it went away again by
13 itself. Makes me wonder how much more life to expect from this motherboard.
14
15 --->8
16
17 > I used to have a howto bookmarked that gave more detail then the current
18 > step- by-step examples. Unfortunately, that whole website disappeared about
19 > 5 or 6 years ago.
20 >
21 > Maybe check the old thread where Dale started with LVM. There is a lot of
22 > detail in there.
23
24 Hmm...don't remember that. I'll see if I can find it - thanks.
25
26 --->8
27
28 > > As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is having a
29 > > separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - sorry.
30 >
31 > A seperate " /usr " or " / " on LVM.
32
33 Oh yes, of course. I missed that one. I shouldn't have, because that's the
34 reason my / is on RAID-1 but not LVM - to avoid needing an initramfs.
35
36 --
37 Regards
38 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>