Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is my issue as well. I tried to make a init* to deal with this and
have yet to get one to work, not one single working boot up. I have tried
different howtos and not one of them produced anything that works. I have
not found a dracut howto that makes any sense either. Sorry but genkernel
left a bad taste in my mouth ages ago.
While I think that the direction we're moving in (/usr on root or use
an initramfs) is inevitable, I do agree that it needs some
improvement.
I've gotten Dracut to work fine in VMs (even with fairly complex
setups), but every time I try it on my server it doesn't set up the
raid for some reason, and drops me to a dash shell. If I just run
mdadm_auto at that point it takes about 15 seconds to find and setup
my raid, and just typing exit boots the system just fine. I keep it
as an option in grub so that whenever my raid device numbers get mixed
up (seems to happen every other month for no apparent reason) I can
boot the system, since dracut does use the mdadm.conf and UUIDs to put
everything in the right place and find the right root (something you
can't do without an initramfs). One of these days I'll figure out how
to hack an mdadm_auto into the script as a last-ditch measure and then
I'll just have to deal with a one-minute delay.
For being the wave of the future it seems like the only documentation
Dracut has is a single page website with a few paragraphs of info.
I think the bottom line is that the future may look inevitable, but it
isn't actually here yet. I advocate being ready for the future, but
let's try not to force its arrival before everything is mature (though
having it in portage as an option is completely in the spirit of
Gentoo).
Rich
I installed dracut and it did something, although I'm not sure what
yet. I googled until I think google should be tired of me to find docs
to help. Getting it to run was on one page, then figuring out some
options was on yet another page, then grub was on yet another. I don't
know yet if some of these are outdated or anything so I don't know if it
is going to work or just blow up something. Please, don't ask me what it
did. I said I did it, I didn't say I understand it. If it is broken or
breaks in the future, I'm screwed. (Sort of starting to wonder why I
left Mandriva now. I could have swore I wanted to be rid of init* stuff
and make my on freakin kernels. )
I might also add for those considering dracut being the official way, it
is keyworded at this point. I would think someone needs to get this
stable or whatever needs doing before telling folks to use this. It may
work fine but if that is the case, then it needs to be unkeyworded.
Spell check doesn't like our terms here.
I think the future is actually taking several steps backward. That
point has been discussed to death tho.
I hope Sven has his thinking hat on. Maybe I can help some with the
docs. If it works for me, it should work for most. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
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