Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:22 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> Hi.  I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into
> several problems and need some help.  I am using everything but /boot as
> lvm's, with a separate user partition.  I had to copy systemd to /sbin
> because the initrd looks for the realinit too soon, but that is maybe
> another matter.

Moving systemd to /sbin sounds like it's not going to work. Run
readelf -d /usr/lib/systemd/systemd; all the NEEDED libraries on
/usr/lib should be available to the binary at the time it's being
executed.

How did you get your initramfs? dracut? genkernel? Roll your own?

> I had set confirm_spawn=y in the kernel command line, but it only waits
> a short time and then says assuming positive response and tries to
> continue -- how can I get it to wait for me?  Also, even so, it died on
> mounting of my lvms, saying there was some kind of timeout and came to a
> complete halt (maybe it was a shell, but no prompt) after all those
> failed, so I could do nothing much.  Openrc works fine, but I was trying
> to get gnome to work, so I was trying to use systemd.
>
> It saved no logs (none I can find), but then again /var was not mounted.
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated.

I use dracut for my initramfs; I would recommend you to try it.
However, last time I tried to use it with LVM (a few days ago), the
last version (037) failed, but 036-r4 worked perfectly.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México