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 1QuQts-0008IH-6X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:22:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAB9D21C091; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157EC21C32F for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so3030757wwf.10 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:20:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=jaWIZX2ekWmogLvEiVTjGwUEtZbRGoaSbdQhvyngq1c=; b=X1PDxQhM/lzByzU/fvtfugyK9QVRKOoeN19l7HgPKMZlnOK7XAorIr2HGiS+jw01pY VGnBvCw/O3OvievAQQiz1HzXgTDFeXP/Qa7W91YB4IP81aU+WtwNWTKAnv8PRkcvOA3l 4EIu7RxQun0+eZmeh9fGh4i2Wflp9IEWT4aH8= Received: by 10.216.54.4 with SMTP id h4mr712304wec.15.1313767242774; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:20:42 -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 ek1sm2656752wbb.62.2011.08.19.08.20.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:20:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: frares@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:20:30 +0200 Message-ID: <3976089.lkIPQrailE@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: 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: bc4812ede9e7fe2be8d0fb4e47d7c8e6 On Fri 19 August 2011 15:06:46 frares@gmail.com did opine thusly: > > Some Gentoo users still need an initramfs, such as booting off > > drives in a RAID configuration. They need the RAID drivers > > first to read the disks so use an initramfs to fix this little > > problem exactly as Ubunut fixes their problem. > > > > Make sense? > > Completely! Thanks a lot. > > So I guess that my problem is to find an appropriate pair of driver > and hard disk operating mode. That's right. Don't forget the filesystem drivers. For example if you mount an ext3 partition at / and it's on a SATA drive, then you need SATA and ext3 drivers in the kernel (not as modules). -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com