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 1QuXG2-0007Gk-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:09:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D73A21C03D; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DDC21C03D for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk38 with SMTP id 38so828372yxk.40 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=b2IvmRV/5aRiOy8tr21M1hQYNXHkyhM7Fn7DUGFH91Q=; b=tC7hVLBwyOJQd/Rvwicl13bvuzh21/c8e/o0sh9Br0Gp9MRAgD1fhcRV9jKK9rAK4W 5Yfa8uhu3mRL7dLqGku4JA4H+2T6UFntCVEV0A1ZJPDeB0sQxrv0GCvyOlTdfVWirBPf PjzeOFSQgHYeF57X1T0ccNAEb+EiFmpmkr+9w= Received: by 10.151.51.21 with SMTP id d21mr258966ybk.428.1313791690354; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-190.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.190]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f5sm2262417ybd.28.2011.08.19.15.08.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:08:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4EDEC6.7050107@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:08:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110816 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20cf30563e9305fe3504aadb7be7@google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5bbcbe64f36ccc565891166c1f88e88d Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > The initramfs is a container for modules and stuff need to bring up > the system before the mounts of > / and /boot. If all the drivers are built-in to the kernel (or at > least the minimum required drivers are built-in) > then the initramfs isn't necessary. > > Passing parameters to the kernel is a different issue entirely. > > My grub.conf line is: > > kernel /vmlinuz-3.0.3-gentoo root=/dev/sda2 > pata_it821x.noraid=1 > > with the pata_it821x driver built-in for the kenel to find a set of > older IDE drives on the IT8212 card I have installed. > > IIRC the initramfs is built with the mkinitrd command. I haven't had > to use it so I could be wrong. Update with new info. With udev needing some things in /usr, and /var, you will need a init* if /usr and /var is not on / in the near future. Yea, real neat. Some need it already just depends on what is installed from what I read. Dale :-) ;-)