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 1Qufos-0000es-CJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:18:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A712721C133; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:18:05 +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 C7E9421C02C for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxk38 with SMTP id 38so1014344yxk.40 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:17:09 -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=K+6ObNZ0nIXHZ2WZTJ+C1aFCKAbsRrRG8o25i99YKNs=; b=UhI/6Le6RvF9WiJHkUMFaBjOXh/+LdaCMv0wQjkH5FPQ1MZ5tnZubsgM2TvJQ+gRz+ zD571LdQX5Rg+ZPjpAvBir3BLMFUsNShqJwSTn4cYgOy+2+pqItzgHxjSbRJsvlsvrNP E3RFDtuCqVFTd9Fczdodlt32P9ilb+hIwShx4= Received: by 10.236.179.98 with SMTP id g62mr1368101yhm.2.1313824629343; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:17:09 -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 o2sm2077265yhl.71.2011.08.20.00.17.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4F5F72.6010607@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:17:06 -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> <4E4EDEC6.7050107@gmail.com> <201108200804.51005.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201108200804.51005.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6f524dc08b8883e9893ca501184fd54a Mick wrote: > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 23:08:06 Dale wrote: > >> 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. >> > Give us a link please Dale. > > 2/3 of my boxen have both /usr and/var on separate partitions and I never had > to use initramfs (other than boot splash - or whatever it happens to be called > this month). > > 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. I think it can be found on gmane.com. Again, it is on -dev and yes I raised my objections to this but it is UPSTREAM from Gentoo. Dang Fedora or something. ;-) Dale :-) :-)