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 1SChpu-0006QP-R7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:38:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0BD1E05F2; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:37:52 +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 65D7CE08E1 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq2 with SMTP id q2so516791yen.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:36:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Bx/AWb0aIdV9kFovHaN7scuB5FPQQOtepuonodf77w=; b=GpoaEZaj5KwW6HEMJHnLqsdpVNUvxGsU4ZWoVLpW0eI8X7MafusSsyP4rQb3mz1GPm VhN+Qp//bxb1ZcwWAz0WbNkU9M0R9T3rsvjYEEQgqEewNnIrHYxC3vFEUUFVkWIkT3n1 iiOuW4u0g5cObI4Xo7QKmNvUa3jEBd3bQLLQzT0tEw6/TdZ+7/YtiMGRpnwxR6Fzho6s aXC+VfmSbUreyicVXAsEypL3uvnoTh+JSoieA8Z8XkkjI6EXiSjB88TUCflkwqzL5qzC hyD/Lrymugt34i09JC9ggZrqUOLkD3fwMBdmVS4cCM/KYuSa5ld8p1gA+tCDaTSqnuRr 2f/Q== Received: by 10.236.154.168 with SMTP id h28mr27784773yhk.59.1332898571777; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:36:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f40sm2091301ani.16.2012.03.27.18.36.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F726B08.4010205@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:36:08 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 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] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <01de01cd0c26$98088c40$c819a4c0$@kutulu.org> <4F71E12F.7060108@gmail.com> <000901cd0c40$0a137520$1e3a5f60$@kutulu.org> <4F720751.3020900@gmail.com> <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> <20120327235215.7834f4c7@khamul.example.com> <4F723F01.4040904@gmail.com> <20120328012023.50434b55@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20120328012023.50434b55@karnak.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1a9446f0-bb22-4130-ab29-a7c333d3594d X-Archives-Hash: 28cd11aae0acbfba097ed2593e90ea88 David W Noon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > InitRAMFS - boot expert sought: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: > [snip] >>> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no >>> longer a problem. Sorted. > > And /var ?? > >> But what about using LVM? People was all for me using it a while back >> and I want to use it, see other post, but now because of this, I'm not >> supposed to. > > I promised you (plural) an easy initramfs solution a few months back. > > I have an initramfs image of 1.6MiB that supports LVM and > mounts /usr, /var and any other LVM volume or partition you wish. I > have been able to boot with it since about January (hardware issues on > my development box permitting). I will release a Python script to > build it from a single command in the next 10 days or 2 weeks. The > real chore will be writing the documentation (as with most software > development efforts). > > For me, the best part is its diminutive size, as my /boot partitions > are only 32MiB each. The fact that it works every time should make you > feel secure against whatever the udev developers can throw at us. The reason I want to use dracut is because that is what is supposed to be supported by Gentoo. I also read where others have used it with no problems. I was also hoping to learn how it works, or is supposed to work, so that if something happens I can figure out a fix for it. So far, I broke it. lol I know genkernel is another approach but I just learned to hate that a long time ago. While not as bad as hal, it's a close second. I might also add, mine does boot, it's just that the system doesn't work right when I do boot with it. From what I understand, it doesn't make sense as to why it doesn't work. In a way what it does is really simple. Mount /, then mount /usr and whatever else, then switch to the new / and boot. I have no idea why that makes me unable to su to root. From what I have read, once it does the switch root thing, it's done and should work the same. Well, I'm going to go have a good soak in the tub on this mess. Sooth my nerves a bit. :/ Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"