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 1R20Sa-0000Qw-Hs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:45:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8D3D21C178; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA27F21C0C2 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yih13 with SMTP id 13so1056405yih.40 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:44:25 -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=RJ4ASlZPLbP+N4l51Tm8FduWUyX0cuTueGTVW6RVyfM=; b=kEpL6HbR4XCsjmnnVaLbMcBxX4j3dyVaFK+lxCtpfatNKV7TCFPGayMgsxZojqEo2M 4x3sYdPKDp0AmcLrw6V9UAM5g5xL18lqpJM3rjTkQd08GIt5D8uN6Ng45Uq3d4L09fO6 fBpCoLyNN/Y0hBaqSkcEOYiDo1wAa2CxJ9T+Q= Received: by 10.147.135.7 with SMTP id m7mr57782yan.30.1315572264963; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-89-228.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.89.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j11sm4659326ang.5.2011.09.09.05.44.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E6A0A23.8020107@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:44:19 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110829 Firefox/6.0 SeaMonkey/2.3.1 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> <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> <4E66FFFA.2020600@gmail.com> <201109071923.39954.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> <20110907235457.691be720@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20110908023729.45d1b985@karnak.local> <20110909134107.372f6fd9@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20110909134107.372f6fd9@weird.wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bc6c537f94f2004169f5dcf19ddeaf1f Alex Schuster wrote: > David W Noon writes: > >> The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the >> idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs >> will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot >> partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to contain all the >> extra libraries and programs to run the initramfs script. > Here, I only need 2.2 M for the kernel, 1.7 M for System.map, and 3.5 M > for the initramfs. > > Wonko > Well, that may not be the case for everyone else. root@fireball / # du -shc /boot/ 84M /boot/ 84M total root@fireball / # Of course, while I am redoing my partitions, I guess I can make /boot bigger as well. Heck, may have to change something else before to long. I'm sure someone will find some side corner case where something might happen and decide to fix what isn't broke. Yep, sounds about right to me. It's not the first time for this sort of thing to happen. Dale :-) :-)