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 1R2vas-0001gp-PQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:45:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEFA621C1A0; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C1C21C042 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf10 with SMTP id 10so881791wwf.4 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:44:20 -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=az+HLCIBCkqUxc5x7MLZhajkdmksusY8/PIfp4OSVgY=; b=owOqhp9WLNzrJkFS7ttBkgcymCtQQGKdzNTpxe9aI12hkhPkfYcvQRwEzFhudrN4Y9 rtAmF3d6m9rQnJ7caukI5PfBexCEjRh8AWMD4028w3qH9MALQSLyAjCNmz59MgsauO/y F4CGaYNej/85amozoAgfnDkxIjr+wk4lR5xF0= 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 10.216.134.155 with SMTP id s27mr1641480wei.53.1315791860186; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.239.198 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:44:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110911224641.5c3d36a7@karnak.local> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <1976676.VEhsp2hV9U@tux> <4E6D0470.5030006@gmail.com> <201109112037.10885.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E6D230B.1010005@gmail.com> <20110911224641.5c3d36a7@karnak.local> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot From: James Wall To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 666ed73b795c0c4c0f236b288989e1a0 On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > >> Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: >> > >> > I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. >> > So, that is done. =A0I also have a 200Mb /boot partition. =A0It >> > sometimes gets about half full but I could just clean out old >> > kernels more often. =A0I could always make /boot larger too. >> > It seems that I'm gonna have fun with a 35M /boot soon (and no LVM >> > of course). ;-) >> >> I'm doing some thinking and reading. =A0I'm either going to go back to >> a rpm based thing and let something besides me deal with the init* >> stuff > > IMO, better to use Debian or Slackware. =A0I went through "RPM Hell" back > in the days when I ran S.u.S.E. (complete with full-stops in the name) > and I will never go back. > >> or stick around and dive into this init* crap and add LVM on >> top. > > Watch this space. =A0You might read something to your advantage in the > next few days. > >> /boot would be the only thing not on LVM. > > Well, /boot cannot be on LVM, as the BIOS does not know about logical > volumes. > >> This makes me >> nervous as heck tho. I have read where if something goes wrong, you >> can lose everything. > > It's no worse than a normal partitioning system, just more flexible. > [Of course, that also means that it is more flexible for you to destroy > your DASD farm yourself.] > >> I'm hoping I can make mine simple enough that I >> can manage any problems even if I can get no outside help. =A0From what >> I have read, usually it's when you can't figure out how to fix it >> that you lose everything. > > Same as partitions: just keep backups. > > I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts. =A0These scan the > current logical volumes and generate lvcreate commands into a script > that can rebuild your LVM set-up in seconds. =A0You (or anybody else) are > welcome to a copy if you wish. I am interested in the backup scripts to help improve my backup/restore sys= tem. > After that, back up the contents using tar, dar, cpio or whatever your > favourite archiving tool happens to be. > -- > Regards, > > Dave =A0[RLU #314465] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > --=20 No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.