On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:20 AM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:13 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> > I am trying to get my system(s) ready for the new (read crappy) way >> > mandated by udev and am having some issues. >> > >> > I usually manually compile my kernels, use tuxonice and dont use an >> > initrd/initramfs. >> > >> > As ToI is not available for the latest kernels, I updated openrc and >> > installed genkernel but then found I couldnt use in-kernel suspend to >> > disk - googling implies that genkernel doesnt support suspend/hibernate >> > but there are various kludges to get it to work. >> > >> > So whats the least invasive, but workable kludge? >> > >> > hibernate, pmhibernate, swsuspend, uswsuspend, ... >> > >> > Are there any (up to date) docs? >> > >> > >> > BillK >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> According to the docs I have found you need to patch genkernel to >> run /sbin/resume - it was a longstanding argument between two now >> retired devs with the result that genkernel wont (ever) support >> hibernation. I dont know from reading the bugs if it was ever fixed now >> the dev who "wouldnt" has retired, or is genkernel is still broken. >> >> Also, I have no /sbin/resume on any of my systems (some are years old >> and have been successfully running ToI for most of that time) - so how >> can the initramfs actually start resumimg? >> >> Though I have a more immediate problem - hangs on hibernation and no log >> messages. >> >> BillK >> >> >> >> > > Well, patching genkernel worked so its still broken as regards > suspend/resume - so I can now suspend/resume still with some errors. > > Next problem is that there are error messages implying /usr might not be > mounted by the initramfs (some /usr files not found) ... is there > anything else that needs doing? Once the system is up /usr and all > other directories are correctly mounted (most are on LVM).
Did you run genkernel with --lvm? Sorry, I don't use genkernel, but dracut has several options to include arbitrary files on the initramfs. I'm sure genkernel has something similar; why don't you try to add the /usr missing files in the initramfs? Good luck. > Is there a way to get a detailed log of what the initrd is doing/has > done? > BillK > > > > -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
