From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fts3L-0008Dw-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:14:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5NKCKKj021633; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:12:20 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5NK0Dnu010948 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:00:13 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so238796nfc for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=umOYExemQJEw1M+x7qJIe50QQI+SeFosVgxJRCUZYvrCqXwzAM/fuVaSDSjygqAGXd/QtCc5NlWgYOSZsaoyQ8YRyKJ7+5L8QjBB+RsGtBdMogPFYJhmlrA+SBkPFzbuD+7b+ywsY0yY3iFdJIfNeNqknylAjzMDIJMIUFxPU0Q= Received: by 10.48.233.18 with SMTP id f18mr2752514nfh; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.1.145? ( [83.233.108.240]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id m15sm329216nfc.2006.06.23.13.00.12; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <449C482F.8010902@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:59:43 +0200 From: Javier Ubillos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d974199f-9ee3-48b5-9f48-e188af10010d X-Archives-Hash: 13edaa4a6af52bd6fa21164f4db3eee6 Hi. I'm trying to get my gentoo isntallation to work, but I'm just ending up pulling my hair out. The setup I'm going for is a single disk, with two partitions One 100MB partition for /boot and the rest of the disk (~120GB) for LVM I've used the standard gentoo installation handbook + "Gentoo LVM2 installation" + gentoo wiki "HOWTO Install Gentoo on an LVM2 root partition" and some random googeling From what I gather, I need an initrd image to boot with, so that it can load neccecary modules to be able to read the logical volumes. I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. The entry in the gentoo wiki is inkomplete (the links to the precompiled binaries are broken) when I try to run mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 2.6.16-gentoo-r9 I allways get no temporary directory could be found (I'm runniing this from the live cd) In conclusion: how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list