So you solved it.
It would be nice then to adorn your subject lines with a [solved] tag,
to avoid further getting mails with comments that are obsolete.
michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 24 April, 2012 01:43
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs
Michael Scherer wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:01:09 -0500
Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Scherer wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500
Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I
really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my
own initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want
my systems ready before that.
Now, having looked at the pertinent documentation, it looks like
the command I need to run is:
genkernel --lvm --mdadm --disklabel initramfs
and then add the initramfs to my grub setup.
The trouble is, genkernel dies on me. I tried for some feedback in
#gentoo-chat, and DrEeevil gave me two clues:
13:34 <+DrEeevil> that shouldn't even be possible
13:36 <+DrEeevil> mikemol: looks like static linking didn't on
your system
I don't know where to take things from here. I'm hesitant to file
a bug on b.g.o, because the tail end of genkernel.log specifically
says not to file build errors as bug reports.
So...any ideas? This is an amd64 mostly-stable system, and dracut
is still masked on amd64, which is why I'm trying to get genkernel
working.
I've attached genkernel.log
If I read the -dev mailing list correctly, they plan to still
support /usr without a init thingy. After all the mess I went
through, we may not need the init thingy after all.
Go figure.
Dale
:-) :-)
I wouldn't bet on that.
But there is a detailed gentoo howto to create an iniramfs
that does just that: load /usr.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting
It works. You only need tell your bootloader that now you
have an initramfs.
There's also a more general introduction
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
for a lot of other options
michael
I'm not betting on it but that is what the Gentoo council voted on and
it said that /usr on a separate partition was going to be supported.
You must have missed the HUGE thread where I was trying to get a init
thingy to work huh?
Dale
:-) :-)
Indeed, I missed all but one email, but there was no hint
at all that anything had been said before I came in.
Sorry for my unsolicited comments, and I hope you have
solved that problem in one or another way.
michael
I meant to put a "LOL" after the comment about the huge thread. I'm not
sure how I missed that. :/ I did get it to work finally. It took
several peoples help and a hammer on my part. ;-)
I'm just curious as to how they are going to support this in the future.
I have read where some say it can be done but others say it can't, or
not easily. Old saying, this is where the rubber meets the road. ^_^
To the OP. I would use dracut. I ran into trouble but I found out
later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut
init thingy to mess up. I strongly suspect that if I had known to get
rid of the previous attempt, it would have worked the first time. My
previous attempt was the one that was built into the kernel itself.
Lets just say there was a huge fight and I missed it. Grub was telling
one thing to load and the kernel was trying to load something else. I'm
sure it was a nice fight.
Dale
:-) :-)
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
