From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FtstM-0003BD-Vf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:08:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5NL5v56003318; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:05:57 GMT Received: from medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.2.58]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5NKt3Yh008312 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:55:03 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAB33195FB for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:41:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (medousa [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03023-01-39 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:41:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from uni-stuttgart.de (mbox-1.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.91]) by medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C0E3195D1 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:41:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by mbox.uni-stuttgart.de Received: from gentoo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (account ruslucas@po2.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.11.67] verified) by uni-stuttgart.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPSA id 47631477 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:40:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:40:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Lucas To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] booting with an lvm2 root. How do I make a working initrd? In-Reply-To: <449C482F.8010902@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <449C482F.8010902@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at medousa.rus.uni-stuttgart.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.399 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 55b2b36a-41f3-43de-9d59-946b4775e634 X-Archives-Hash: b6325460a5da411262826d6950779fdb On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Javier Ubillos wrote: > I don't want to use genkernel, but I still want it to work. you realy should use genkernel.... it's much easier. > mkinitrd --preload md_mod --with=md_mod initrd-2.6.16-gentoo-r9 well you should not use mkinitrd, if you refuse genkernel :-). btw: md-mod is RAID (multiple devs), LVM is dm-mod (dev mapper). > In conclusion: > how do I get/make a working initrd so I can boot with my lvm2 root? that's much work to do it your self.... start building ext2 images or cpio's with static busybox & lvm2 and write your own linuxrc (here you may cheat by looking into linuxrc from genkernel :-)). Don't forget to create dev-files and to include some modules. Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list