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From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 21:05:00
Message-Id: 536559F1.9090103@xunil.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems by Peter Humphrey
1 Am 03.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey:
2
3 >> Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default to
4 >> more logical names.
5 >
6 > If the docs had included that little snippet I'd have saved myself many a
7 > frustrating hour. I'll only look stupid if I tell you how many ;-)
8 >
9 > Anyway, I don't want to hijack the thread. I just wanted to point out that
10 > raid arrays don't need lvm2 or mdraid present to auto-start, at least not on
11 > my openrc box which also has no initramfs.
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13 Thanks for your contribution. I spent nearly the whole day digging
14 around this issue ...
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16 I wonder if I speak for more users when I say that all this is kind of
17 confusing sometimes ... and as mentioned I take the opportunity to clean
18 up this (my!) mess here now as it grew over the years.
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20 I am not so far to skip the initramfs -> I don't *know* that, I just
21 tested removing the line from grub2 and it failed finding the root-fs.
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23 For booting from a plain partition on an SSD I think I shouldn't need an
24 initramfs? Does it have to do with MBR/GPT as well (the SSD is
25 still/again MBR, as UEFI booting broke badly for me back then) ?
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27 Maybe I learn more soon ;-)
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29 Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>