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 1SEsb7-0008Bk-Fc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:31:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAC3EE0B6A; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:31:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F50AE09BA for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yhjj72 with SMTP id j72so1909136yhj.40 for ; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:29:58 -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=m/RnIzUT+rgExikLOpCvjqHVGY/rHbrLygbLYmJw0vM=; b=sMNHdN1QyUG5rTgpBbmpfhPV+SvY3QXwKbmgXCTzjgjVNTDHzFNIiYZ1ilQqjvnl6n gUxgrtcXeT6epTJE4bNrrZECWM3MZBQ2IUYC8D7Xl6jCYC29aYbru5Xp2i5w7/pMjnFl 5bd9z+E1Y/9LIfCHuDJ5toh+Mpz8lwjBRZ/wRCkzu9vYJkG2oNlCyi1XnJR8tJLycr1H 6cBa//XT0lfs78efdY2RmODGDeDfAnju3smRQTvM24MRM/2xouHV/yl0caTeFYqJVH5C gx6VqSuM0ZdwQwanZoxKL0zplBul6/TdqZwD2DMFcqnaaW/gfVSNEeNtsXk2LUz0qzeC Ugew== Received: by 10.236.170.198 with SMTP id p46mr9051463yhl.63.1333416598849; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-56-148.jan.bellsouth.net. [74.240.56.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t31sm7370236yhj.6.2012.04.02.18.29.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F7A5293.50104@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:29:55 -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] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? References: <20120327142646.GB3754@acm.acm> <003e01cd0c53$a2e99b90$e8bcd2b0$@kutulu.org> <20120327212422.GA3437@acm.acm> <20120327234819.45111444@khamul.example.com> <20120327223544.GC3437@acm.acm> <20120328005520.140b8fd6@khamul.example.com> <20120328140132.GA3546@acm.acm> <20120328155636.5296a82d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20120328170733.GA27818@acm.acm> <4F73C0B6.9090002@gmail.com> <4F73CB46.3080009@gmail.com> <4F74C2FE.3030704@gmail.com> <4F795818.4080901@gmail.com> <20120402230811.6470ee83@digimed.co.uk> <4F7A2674.6030601@gmail.com> <4F7A422C.2080600@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8a6abb59-dc95-4836-ad6a-3b80af4b14e3 X-Archives-Hash: 0dbde43e6334ef61d6b736fea1fdb941 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> On Apr 3, 2012 7:26 AM, "Dale" wrote: >>> >>> Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Dale wrote: >>>>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>>>> zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ooops, it sort of snipped a bit much. lol Here you go: >>>>> >>>>> root@fireball / # zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >>>>> # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set >>>>> root@fireball / # >>>>> >>>>> Looks like a nope to me. ;-) >>>> >>>> That was the reason for asking for your /usr/src/linux/.config file. >>>> The udev ebuild ask for: >>>> >>>> CONFIG_CHECK=3D"~BLK_DEV_BSG ~DEVTMPFS ~HOTPLUG ~INOTIFY_USER ~NET >>>> ~PROC_FS ~SIGNALFD ~SYSFS ~!IDE ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED >>>> ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2" >>>> >>>> The dracut ebuild ask for: >>>> >>>> CONFIG_CHECK=3D"~BLK_DEV_INITRD ~DEVTMPFS ~MODULES" >>>> >>>> So please check that you have all those options (and don't have the >>>> ones with !), recompile your kernel, and reboot. >>>> >>>> Also, the divergence between /boot/kernel... and (hd0,0)/kernel... i= n >>>> your grub could be causing funny things. Check that also. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>> >>> >>> OK. I hate modules. Can they be built into the kernel? The only >>> module I have is nvidia for my video card. >>> >>> Also, if you can put this in one email, what about the /dev line in f= stab? >>> >>> I didn't check the ebuild but I don't recall seeing anything when I >>> emerged dracut either. o_O Maybe we are on to something here. ^_O >>> >> >> AFAIK DEVTMPFS is not a module. You either turn it on or off. Of cours= e, >> you'll need a whole-kernel compile, but that's it. >> >> If you use menuconfig, IIRC there's another option right under DEVTMPF= S' one >> that offers to mount devtmpfs on boot. If you turn that on, you *might= * get >> away without a /dev in fstab. >=20 > Dale doesn't need /dev on fstab (nobody does); I only asked about it > since I had no information about the dracut failure trying to mount > /dev. >=20 > Now I think we have enough information, and I hope that when Dale > recompiles his kernel and reboots, everything will work. >=20 > Regards. Storm seems to have slowed down so Dale is about to reboot. Dale hopes this init thingy works too. < crosses fingers, toes, eyes and anything else crossable > I also saved the old line that works, just in case. This is me after all. lol Dale :-) :-) --=20 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=3D"--quiet-build=3Dn"