From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QugxG-0006IL-PF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:30:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F94621C1D2; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CBC821C1B1 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so3544192wwf.10 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:29:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=TSRvBs3KaweorvkS2avSzg0fqtzDymWid3Vu5++K4hs=; b=e3g1NHqm8pG6Q0SEXCgHqMj9h2VpT/JfQooAN8Qp79h1gjGOkcnfVJ9f3++XNIjSjc nT3C6fDDd4HGkPJ/waku1+aboyiX5R2tF//XPJOBe8N1/D4x2zfQFRfqC819bglSlGCE PvgS2AKnTozVP0RmCnDA0dCGnB1UnrX00C7+8= Received: by 10.227.203.2 with SMTP id fg2mr230065wbb.65.1313828989306; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:29:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id et16sm3182990wbb.36.2011.08.20.01.29.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:29:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:29:35 +0200 Message-ID: <1515418.71ta6D0nBA@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E4F5F72.6010607@gmail.com> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201108200804.51005.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E4F5F72.6010607@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 824b4fe3013d69199f99b3565770c444 On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > >> Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, > >> and /var, you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / > >> in the near future. Yea, real neat. Some need it already > >> just depends on what is installed from what I read. > >> > >> > >> > > Give us a link please Dale. > > > > 2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions > > and I never had to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or > > whatever it happens to be called this month). > > > > > > It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > > "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper > initramfs in the handbook?" > > I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it > sucks. I have /var on a separate partition and want to put /usr > on one to but not now. Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev ever intended to do. /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for Gentoo.... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com