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 1R1NXc-0003s8-OE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:12:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D974E21C26D; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC9B21C268 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyg36 with SMTP id 36so7684475wyg.40 for ; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:10:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SUtq89woALdCedWQii9qkH3bhXs0MfTMFP/yrmjoCh8=; b=LQdH8vman3crhumU16ptPR/jgf0iZdZRkBJ5Iizz/Sa6dBVPBZ4tXaaIrj3a2Volh8 SfdZDpsHqhxCcDvJZr5qdBvmLZrSj41qqpu9cKSKXZqh787XeHA8VqkTw+AD7N19MTYC bYsNbCZ6HkmhYa6/kwzTKi3kiD0A37ySAVH20= 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 Received: by 10.216.181.141 with SMTP id l13mr1227842wem.98.1315422658743; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.39.140 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:10:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20110907050952.GA2588@linux1> <4E66FFFA.2020600@gmail.com> <201109071923.39954.Dan.Johansson@dmj.nu> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:10:58 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ad9e4b621220b76887268d22246b3517 On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: >>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dan Johansson w= rote: >>>>>> > This is definitely not a choice that the gentoo disto made; it is = coming >>>>>> > from several upstreams. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know it is from upstream but it still tastes really bad. =C2=A0 ;-= ) >>>>> >>>>> I can only agree! >>>>> I am having /usr on a LVM volume on all systems (Gentoo and non Gento= o). >>>>> This will be a MAJOR issue if /usr needs to be on /. >>>> >>>> It is my understanding that /usr does *not* need to be on /, only that >>>> if you do, you will need an initramfs. Look at >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/72275 and the thread >>>> that followed it. >>> >>> ...and now I know that my entirely UUID-driven fstab may stop working, >>> if they choose not to add that particular "tweak/improvement". >> >> ...or you could, you know, use the genkernel generated initramfs, or >> dracut. Anyway, probably UUIDs and labels will be added to the minimal >> initramfs (it is my undrestanding it's kinda easy to do). The >> important thing is that it will be still supported. > > I use the proprietary NVidia drivers, so genkernel went away very > early in my system's lifetime. I hadn't heard about dracut until > today. I still don't know anything about it, really. It's another initramfs creator. Since I use systemd and wanted to try plymouth, I started to use it. In my case it works, and I get a really nice splash screen at boot time. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico