Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/27/19 6:10 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > >> I think Chet Ramey did a pretty good explanation in the linked mailing >> list about why this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what "POSIX" >> means, but just to be extra sure... you are aware that POSIX de

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
Hi I've come across a possible issue which related to usb keyboard/mouse device. I notice that booting using dracut initramfs with kernel 5.2-rc2 that as soon as it boots it shows on the console: stopping job udev Kernel Device Manager with red spinner. This times out and boot continues fine - o

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 27, 2019 13:45 Damjan Georgievski escreveu: Thanks, I've also noticed another issue about the uefi stub and sent a PR: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/575 Thank you all for testing and also submitting patches to make it work better not just on Arch, but any other distro too.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
> > dracut 049-3 on an Arch [testing] VM > > > > There are a few more instances where arch must be replaced with uname -m. > > I'll deploy a version of dracut with that patch later: > > https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/573 > Thanks, I've also noticed another issue about the uefi stub and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 27, 2019 11:18 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general escreveu: dracut --uefi This seems to fail for me: $ sudo dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi /usr/bin/dracu

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Jonas Witschel
On 2019-05-27 16:18, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:> This seems to fail for me: > $ sudo dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi > dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi > /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi > /usr/bin/dracut: line 1063: arch

Re: [arch-general] Dual boot Arch with Windows 10

2019-05-27 Thread Maxwell Anselm via arch-general
> I will go through the links guys, thanks a lot.. > > And Yi Zheng, me neither like UEFI, but what to do, nowadays all laptops > comes as UEFI.. and to change it to MBR i have to wipe the entire drive :( > It's actually much easier to dual boot with UEFI once you become familiar with it. If your

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
> > > dracut --uefi > This seems to fail for me: $ sudo dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --no-early-microcode --uefi /boot/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi /usr/bin/dracut: line 1063: arch: command not found /usr/bin/dracut: line 1069: a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > I think Chet Ramey did a pretty good explanation in the linked mailing > list about why this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what "POSIX" > means, but just to be extra sure... you are aware that POSIX defines > `command ^` as the only true, correct POSI

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

2019-05-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neven Sajko via arch-general wrote: > Regarding using bash as sh: > > > Bash runs POSIX scripts just fine. > > Bash does not run some POSIX scripts fine. See > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-08/msg00087.html , > for example. In that case an executable named ^ can not be called.

Re: [arch-general] Dual boot Arch with Windows 10

2019-05-27 Thread Ram Kumar via arch-general
I will go through the links guys, thanks a lot.. And Yi Zheng, me neither like UEFI, but what to do, nowadays all laptops comes as UEFI.. and to change it to MBR i have to wipe the entire drive :( On Mon, 27 May 2019, 12:31 pm Yi Zheng via arch-general, < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I

Re: [arch-general] Dual boot Arch with Windows 10

2019-05-27 Thread Yi Zheng via arch-general
I hate UEFI... Ali Emre Gülcü via arch-general 于2019年5月27日周一 下午2:41写道: > > > > create a USB-Key, install extlinux onto it. In extlinux.conf, you can > > provide kernel cmdline, with root=UUID=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx > > In that way, you can boot your archlinux(and any other linux) from