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 1Qufcs-0008HD-RY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:05:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 270B621C196; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F0621C02C for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so3408521wyg.40 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:04:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Sm17vGENs0pyxGG+GxZUcPdatmw99PWmhCx8ASeOcnY=; b=sOlPakH26JaT/JbV5t1y/HFua1HjXwnsyb8kb+Gm7qeStefdynzfjw2aNVZd5022D/ G+9H6xy7/vVJ+Oz9MAtfL5YBG2/jZmYg18GV70FsiRV5bzczWrKaH+KNlPkTNR2cLZMt xfXuKPGNpX5bMDnALUXsMqdDXk23cJ4enxphA= Received: by 10.227.137.14 with SMTP id u14mr190526wbt.31.1313823847084; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm3139322wbx.51.2011.08.20.00.04.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:04:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:04:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E4EDEC6.7050107@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E4EDEC6.7050107@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-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1905200.8HgPWveRO1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108200804.51005.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fe2595b99d5963658ac188510affe874 --nextPart1905200.8HgPWveRO1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: > Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up > > the system before the mounts of > > / and /boot. If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at > > least the minimum required drivers are built-in) > > then the initramfs isn't necessary. > >=20 > > Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely. > >=20 > > My grub.conf line is: > > kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=3D/dev/sda2 > >=20 > > pata_it821x.noraid=3D1 > >=20 > > with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of > > older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed. > >=20 > > IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command. I haven't had > > to use it so I could be wrong. >=20 > 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 h= ad=20 to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be cal= led=20 this month). =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1905200.8HgPWveRO1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5PXJIACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbRtgCeNAstpGBeYa3Mkg1WMzLM9V+C bwQAoJ9OsQ6Ff1Uq2vSaTR/XVU4wKaYr =oHn0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1905200.8HgPWveRO1--