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 1R2j9L-0000cs-Kc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:28:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1490721C113; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:28:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA1921C072 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B277CEA.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.124.234]) (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 6B5A939A00B for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:26:59 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110911142659.74e04799@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <1976676.VEhsp2hV9U@tux> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E69D406.9000909@gmail.com> <4E6A4BB6.9030002@coolmail.se> <1976676.VEhsp2hV9U@tux> 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: 660564b0703741f26b517f53f2abfb0d Paul Colquhoun writes: > Looking at "initramfs" as a modern Linux replacement for the > "bootable / partition" of traditional Unix systems does make some > sense, even though I think it could be made simpler. > > Fot those opposed to initramfs, would you also object to /boot being > 1) a manditory seperate partition > 2) required to be ext2 (or one of a *very* short list) > 3) having /boot/{bin,sbin,lib} containing local copies of the absolute > minimum boot requirements (i.e. initramfs in a real fs) I had this on one machine. I used the stuff that Dirk Heinrich offered [*] (he simply calls it initfs), and it sort of worked, but I also got some errors. Anyway, I always wondered why this is not the standard way. Sure, having a single intr{d,amfs} file is convenient, but every time I want to have a look into it, I have to google the cpio syntax in order to extract stuff. While, with an initfs, you simply see everything as plain files in the /boot partition. Wonko [*] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg88055.html