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 1R21gG-00084X-1I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:03:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F35221C0B7; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AAC21C0B7 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B275875.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.88.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45AE839A00B for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:02:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:02:18 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110909160218.1087ceee@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <4E6A0A23.8020107@gmail.com> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> <4E66FFFA.2020600@gmail.com> <201109071923.39954.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> <20110907235457.691be720@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20110908023729.45d1b985@karnak.local> <20110909134107.372f6fd9@weird.wonkology.org> <4E6A0A23.8020107@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: afbc423255bf45e09e70a7ce9b169178 Dale writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > David W Noon writes: > > > >> The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > >> the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the > >> initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, > >> my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to > >> contain all the extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs > >> script. > > Here, I only need 2.2 M for the kernel, 1.7 M for System.map, and 3.5 > > M for the initramfs. > Well, that may not be the case for everyone else. Sure, but how much bigger are your kernels actually? > root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/ > 84M /boot/ > 84M total > root@fireball / # I get 82M, but I have ten kernels in there. What stuff do you have in /boot? Wonko