From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: dwnoon@ntlworld.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120329002640.11ecf6e5@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120328230124.057e1472@karnak.local>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100
> > David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 ??
> >
> > What about /var?
> >
> > The thread is about initramfs and putting /usr onto the / volume to
> > get around early-boot prolems.
> >
> > Surely you do not need the content of /var during early boot?
>
> With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var --
> and anything else -- before udev starts. So it is in the same
> category as /usr.
Maybe, maybe not.
However, no-one apart from you is even suggesting such a thing. For my
part I'm going to ignore that possibility and concentrate on those
things that are being seriously suggested.
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 10:36 [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Helmut Jarausch
2012-03-27 13:19 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 13:30 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 14:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 15:20 ` covici
2012-03-27 15:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 14:33 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 15:47 ` Dale
2012-03-27 17:35 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 18:30 ` Dale
2012-03-27 19:27 ` Sebastian Beßler
2012-03-27 20:04 ` Dale
2012-03-27 20:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 20:46 ` Dale
2012-03-27 21:08 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-27 21:43 ` Dale
2012-03-27 21:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 22:28 ` Dale
2012-03-28 0:20 ` David W Noon
2012-03-28 1:36 ` Dale
2012-03-28 21:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-28 22:01 ` David W Noon
2012-03-28 22:26 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-28 23:20 ` David W Noon
2012-03-29 2:24 ` Dale
2012-03-29 8:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-29 12:01 ` David W Noon
2012-03-29 20:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-29 21:20 ` pk
2012-05-19 13:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-29 23:26 ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-30 10:36 ` David W Noon
2012-03-29 12:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-03-29 13:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 20:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-29 22:10 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-29 23:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 14:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Doug Hunley
2012-03-29 16:47 ` David W Noon
2012-03-27 22:02 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-27 22:35 ` Dale
2012-03-27 22:49 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-29 13:59 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-29 17:36 ` Dale
2012-03-30 7:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2012-03-30 7:56 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-27 23:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 23:47 ` Dale
2012-03-28 7:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 7:55 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-28 21:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 20:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 16:18 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-03-27 16:50 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 16:57 ` Dale
2012-03-27 17:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-27 20:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 21:20 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 21:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 20:36 ` Dale
2012-03-27 20:46 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-27 21:59 ` Dale
2012-03-27 22:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 22:31 ` Dale
2012-03-27 22:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 23:50 ` Dale
2012-03-28 7:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 18:29 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 21:58 ` pk
2012-03-28 23:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 17:14 ` pk
2012-03-29 18:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 18:54 ` pk
2012-03-29 2:21 ` Michael Mol
[not found] ` <20120329100248.24ecb03c@digimed.co.uk>
2012-03-29 14:21 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-29 14:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 15:58 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-28 15:20 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-03-28 16:41 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-28 20:44 ` Simon
2012-03-28 21:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-29 2:38 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-03-29 8:43 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-04-03 12:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-04-03 13:15 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-03-27 21:22 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 22:01 ` Dale
2012-03-28 2:27 ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-28 5:46 ` du yang
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