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 1QuhOg-0000gZ-EN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:59:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0CA221C1F0; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B1921C0B3 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 08:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so3454632wyg.40 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:58:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=97+KSlKXZImRG2M7/5QfLrRCA12gcWzL8lohnx0a2Jk=; b=rlABbTRQOAN3EYbFR+QLNYKWalJgsqrEfnXBdui6E7P5mPWRgFMpXcuRWsvxOpHg1g uoHSDQpIH0XgBTBhP2B229SlH/pdIVYssSWXPzjKM+huCDZxTzvz7k4jfAeufGVI9/7P P3e0DW6srPYIbc8Y37jxpcUElPp6htCcXlrr4= Received: by 10.216.60.201 with SMTP id u51mr262526wec.38.1313830680256; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:58:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-55.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a43sm2655390wed.4.2011.08.20.01.57.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:57:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: <2122673.tty0QrPrze@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E4F74D2.3090809@gmail.com> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1515418.71ta6D0nBA@nazgul> <4E4F74D2.3090809@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 45149ca8950dbaac7cbad2c376630c49 On Sat 20 August 2011 03:48:18 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sat 20 August 2011 02:17:06 Dale did opine thusly: > >> It was discussed on -dev so far. This is the subject line: > >> > >> "Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper > >> initramfs in the handbook?" > >> > >> I think it will apply to /var to at some point. I think it > >> sucks. I have /var on a separate partition and want to put > >> /usr on one to but not now. > > > > Eh? That's fucking braindead. It also violates everything udev > > ever intended to do. > > > > /usr and /var on separate partitions, plus a custom kernel > > without an initramfs is *exactly* the most common use case for > > Gentoo.... > I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on > its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. > Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It > downright sucks. > > You planning to explain this to the devs? Maybe you will have > better luck. They said it is a dev from Fedora that started this . > . . . crap. ;-) I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com