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 1SD1Nk-0001Ah-Ek for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:30:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96F09E0DDC; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D514E09B4 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhr17 with SMTP id hr17so1331469wib.10 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:27:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=bbXhJJQDrGWiBWhEOJ3H1YkmiMdcSevDejd2nDRGAeo=; b=KeKXpMrp8NBeDuRvX8WXRv8CMN1vs0aimPFhQRO5zCS61PcuvNBEUk7m4KXgqVa7eL EvtCvc8098q9ZnDxWyHCmNHl6Q0jMJWOUyofO0sYD4nC+NMtVouSDJLwbzo3Y9CekhnY /6G/vEvDsDFaod1c0v+HkaEgR5v0ZoCWFKonb59hQOR0bHXj8Vds+y99BPdKoGIoqS+w z8f1SyLO41pzuhVOlbIft9WVRpn+FK2Qp1+YuFqJYVrcW3mYuawM4INtIT+Rse8hr4k1 EMRlksOANSubNpaf97UUYuUQ0RMgxaQci7ygh8Pg+jVSPVllgcv0p7ChaiCAA6j+UqOE HvQQ== Received: by 10.216.139.67 with SMTP id b45mr20558392wej.0.1332973673217; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-210-183-224.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.183.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w10sm18998488wiy.3.2012.03.28.15.27.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: dwnoon@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought Message-ID: <20120329002640.11ecf6e5@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120328230124.057e1472@karnak.local> 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> <20120328012023.50434b55@karnak.local> <20120328234027.33766b9c@khamul.example.com> <20120328230124.057e1472@karnak.local> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.10; 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: db54f713-540e-45d1-acbc-93964c22bfde X-Archives-Hash: 7a9e52797e3dd323533b99cb993a85d2 On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100 David W Noon 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 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