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 <gentoo-user+bounces-127142-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QulBB-0005rX-JO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:01:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1EFE21C24D; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:01:23 +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 5F27021C23E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so3558353wyg.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:59:21 -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=oxGny/dd72ia9Qz8/LBJF7PbCq6v8EOU/z43IFPqGZY=; b=OApr3wlSQaFd3t8ycSxkazRcFhhUTyx9VEPdHWd+KZuJQNjSPpHbfWhYwnijON856B eIeJzCVMt35VXV6HjqKKJau+vc90v9RMN3vHeftMRXOTxzs0Ih7+n+Y1uTpnMIV1Mi3b 4ckuQA8KZ18TgbdGKK8X57201q8hJH0Y1Lgfo= Received: by 10.227.28.4 with SMTP id k4mr401655wbc.21.1313844931188; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:55:31 -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 et16sm3330321wbb.19.2011.08.20.05.55.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:55:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:55:58 +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> <4E4F74D2.3090809@gmail.com> <2122673.tty0QrPrze@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <2122673.tty0QrPrze@nazgul> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1378039.CcNmdKjCrk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108201356.15303.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 003afc5bb26e136f7ca282f061bac99f --nextPart1378039.CcNmdKjCrk Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 09:57:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > > >>=20 > > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper > > >> initramfs in the handbook?" > > >>=20 > > >> 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. > > >=20 > > > Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev > > > ever intended to do. > > >=20 > > > /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel > > > without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for > > > Gentoo.... > >=20 > > I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on > > its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. > > Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It > > downright sucks. > >=20 > > You planning to explain this to the devs? Maybe you will have > > better luck. They said it is a dev from Fedora that started this . > > . . . crap. ;-) >=20 > I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. The very reason I use Gentoo is BECAUSE I don't like RHL. :( I still have to use CentOS on a server and curse every time it won't work l= ike=20 Gentoo. Can't they just leave us alone? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1378039.CcNmdKjCrk 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) iEYEABECAAYFAk5Pru8ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZa3QCg5DxguGvbq7KPNxmSG4E2b8mZ sjwAnR2ZDB+iAO3Df3IgP067a4o5MI45 =GEIz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1378039.CcNmdKjCrk--