On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:18:44PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > Just thought I'd take my EVMS maintainer hat on and try to add some > constructive input to this: > > EVMS support in yaird should not be difficult to add for someone who already > knows yaird. Basically, what you need to do is: > > - If root= is not /dev/evms/*, _do not do anything in the initrd_. If you > do, you _will_ break root mounting for anybody _not_ using root on EVMS. > - Make sure /dev/ is writable, and mkdir /dev/evms. > - modprobe -q dm-mapper to load the devmapper module. You might also want > to modprobe raid0/raid5 if the system in question needs that for /. > - Run /sbin/evms_activate (from the “evms” package). It will do partition > discovery and mknod the appropriate devices in /dev/evms. > > That's it :-) > > /* Steinar */
Thanks for providing this info, let's hope it will help bring support of evms to yaird soonishly :) Friendly, Sven Luther