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 1SCgeK-0001sm-2Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:22:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F3A4E0AFD; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from karnak.local (cpc2-lutn10-2-0-cust603.9-3.cable.virginmedia.com [81.97.90.92]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D69E0AED for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by karnak.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EBB3003 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:37 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at local Received: from karnak.local ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (karnak.local [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HeGRw0HghGWs for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from karnak.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by karnak.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767453002 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100 From: David W Noon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Message-ID: <20120328012023.50434b55@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <4F723F01.4040904@gmail.com> References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <01de01cd0c26$98088c40$c819a4c0$@kutulu.org> <4F71E12F.7060108@gmail.com> <000901cd0c40$0a137520$1e3a5f60$@kutulu.org> <4F720751.3020900@gmail.com> <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> <20120327235215.7834f4c7@khamul.example.com> <4F723F01.4040904@gmail.com> Organization: Luton Operatic Society X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; i686-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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/kWHl8BtxZ/eZy1K7erHEOQ="; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a0a14d58-ee53-4592-8173-452ac63e7532 X-Archives-Hash: 614cd149e9a41776195dd0ba3f071dcd --Sig_/kWHl8BtxZ/eZy1K7erHEOQ= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: > Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] >> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no >> longer a problem. Sorted. And /var ?? > But what about using LVM? People was all for me using it a while back > and I want to use it, see other post, but now because of this, I'm not > supposed to. I promised you (plural) an easy initramfs solution a few months back. I have an initramfs image of 1.6MiB that supports LVM and mounts /usr, /var and any other LVM volume or partition you wish. I have been able to boot with it since about January (hardware issues on my development box permitting). I will release a Python script to build it from a single command in the next 10 days or 2 weeks. The real chore will be writing the documentation (as with most software development efforts). For me, the best part is its diminutive size, as my /boot partitions are only 32MiB each. The fact that it works every time should make you feel secure against whatever the udev developers can throw at us. --=20 Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* --Sig_/kWHl8BtxZ/eZy1K7erHEOQ= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9yWVAACgkQc9/LpQ70v48dYACfbZtLVRVQotuJbDtJQgTz/RM3 o+UAoJDxOT8RfeSNecJ2HB38uJRcwVbD =z9kJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/kWHl8BtxZ/eZy1K7erHEOQ=--