Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Sunday, May 04, 2014 02:22:16 PM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 04 May 2014 12:37:02 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:53:35 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Saturday 03 May 2014 23:04:49 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> > > > I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ...
> > > 
> > > You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it.
> > 
> > For mission-critical systems, I would have done a clean re-install already
> > with data copied back from a backup. More then 24 hours is a deadline.
> 
> That's what I was doing when I discovered the IRQ16 misbehaviour. After that
> it was a matter of finding the cause. As it happens, it went away again by
> itself. Makes me wonder how much more life to expect from this motherboard.
> 
> --->8

Not necessarily a dead motherboard. Not gotten round to replying on your email 
in that thread yet, will do so in a few moments.

> > I used to have a howto bookmarked that gave more detail then the current
> > step- by-step examples. Unfortunately, that whole website disappeared
> > about
> > 5 or 6 years ago.
> > 
> > Maybe check the old thread where Dale started with LVM. There is a lot of
> > detail in there.
> 
> Hmm...don't remember that. I'll see if I can find it - thanks.
> 
> --->8

Let me know if you have difficulty locating it, I might be able to find the 
actual date/time of the first post for you. (Or even forward the whole thread 
in a zip-file directly to your email if requested)

> > > As far as I know, the only thing that /requires/ an initramfs is having
> > > a
> > > separate /usr. And I can't help you with GPT or UEFI - sorry.
> > 
> > A seperate " /usr " or " / " on LVM.
> 
> Oh yes, of course. I missed that one. I shouldn't have, because that's the
> reason my / is on RAID-1 but not LVM - to avoid needing an initramfs.

I figured that as I am forced to redo my machine with an initramfs anyway, I 
might as well put "/" on RAID as well.
That's why I had "/usr" seperately in the past, so I had that part on RAID+LVM 
and still able to boot.

That's a use-case that is no longer accepted as "normal"

--
Joost