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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 17:29 Bjoern Franke via arch-general escreveu: Just dracut -f /boot/initramfs-linux.img. It is that simple. Tried it, the output looked fine: https://p.rrbone.net/paste/FV7HMpE7# But while booting dracut hang on "initqueue hooks" This output is a json file, so I'm not su

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

2019-05-21 Thread Bjoern Franke via arch-general
> Just dracut -f /boot/initramfs-linux.img. It is that simple. Tried it, the output looked fine: https://p.rrbone.net/paste/FV7HMpE7# But while booting dracut hang on "initqueue hooks" Thanks for your efforts, Bjoern signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 5/21/19 1:21 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: >> Got text prompt for passphrase not graphical - think there is a way to >> get graphical as well but need to read further how to do that. I prefer >> text as I also can see the boot progress details which is helpful. >> Still, be good to know how to

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 5/21/19 2:48 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em maio 21, 2019 15:42 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: ... > > Loading the microcode before will probably always work and should > continue to be the desirable solution. .. Funnily enough, while I do have intel-ucode package installed I don'

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

2019-05-21 Thread Michał Zegan
W dniu 21.05.2019 o 20:48, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general pisze: > Em maio 21, 2019 15:42 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: >> Early Microcode and initrd. >> >> I notice that the AMD microcode is [1] in the initrd while the intel >> microcode is not. >> >> Booting with option: >> initr

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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 15:42 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: Early Microcode and initrd. I notice that the AMD microcode is [1] in the initrd while the intel microcode is not. Booting with option: initrd=/boot/intel-ucode.img to get the microcode installed early works fine with dracut as it al

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
Early Microcode and initrd. I notice that the AMD microcode is [1] in the initrd while the intel microcode is not. Booting with option: initrd=/boot/intel-ucode.img to get the microcode installed early works fine with dracut as it always has. Is this something that will remain the same as now or

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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 15:15 Andy Pieters escreveu: What's the rationale for going dracut? I'm quite happy with mkinitcpio I think I've addressed this in the first email. I'm also quite happy with mkinitcpio, and I myself maintain several mkinitcpio hooks that would need to be re-written for dracu

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

2019-05-21 Thread David C. Rankin
On 05/21/2019 12:06 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: > I'll stress this, dracut and mkinitcpio will co-exist for a *long* time. So, > each will have their own hooks for updating the images. > Thank you. mkinitcpio isn't broken and using both SuSE with dracut and Arch with mkinitcpi

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

2019-05-21 Thread Andy Pieters
What's the rationale for going dracut? I'm quite happy with mkinitcpio

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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 13:24 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: 1) Feedback: Tested one computer and it worked fine. Used refind to boot - it has encrytped /home but not root. Got text prompt for passphrase not graphical - think there is a way to get graphical as well but need to read further how t

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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 12:21 Lone_Wolf escreveu: from https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page : * Scripts that end up on the initrd should be POSIX compliant. dracut will try to use /bin/dash as /bin/sh for the initrd if it is available, so you should install it on your system

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

2019-05-21 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em maio 21, 2019 11:26 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: ... I'm an arch tester and I'd be happy to test dracut. It would be helpful if you could create a little write-up on 'how to switch' from mkinitcpio to dracut. Just run dracut =D. But seriously, I'll work on a wiki page about this.

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 5/21/19 12:41 PM, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: > > > Since ln won't work on vfat, that's not really an option for a lot of people. > Ah thanks and good point. While it would actualy work with refind ( as the images are on ext4 /boot partition and only the refind efi images sit in the

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

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 18:28:50 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > > 2) Question: > >Arch typically has used unversioned initrd images which has the > >convenience that the boot standzas don't need updating on new kernel. > > > > This can (also) be fixed if Arch implements

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

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 12:24:09 -0400 Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > 1) Feedback: > Tested one computer and it worked fine. > Used refind to boot - it has encrytped /home but not root. > Got text prompt for passphrase not graphical - think there is a way to > get graphical as well but need to

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

2019-05-21 Thread Damjan Georgievski via arch-general
> 2) Question: >Arch typically has used unversioned initrd images which has the >convenience that the boot standzas don't need updating on new kernel. > This can (also) be fixed if Arch implements the `kerne-install` [1] mechanism to update the boot-loader stanzas. [1] https://www.freede

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
1) Feedback: Tested one computer and it worked fine. Used refind to boot - it has encrytped /home but not root. Got text prompt for passphrase not graphical - think there is a way to get graphical as well but need to read further how to do that. I prefer text as I also can see the boot progress det

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

2019-05-21 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 5/21/19 11:21 AM, Lone_Wolf wrote: > > On 21-05-2019 16:26, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: >> On 5/20/19 10:41 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >> ... >>> In this initial phase I want to ask as many of you to test this as a >>> replacement to mkinitcpio in

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

2019-05-21 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Tue, 21 May 2019 17:21:31 +0200 Lone_Wolf wrote: > Seems like having dracut depending on bash may not be a good idea. > > Or is there a way to make sure dracut scripts & hooks will use bash in > POSIX-compliant mode ? > > LW Bash runs POSIX scripts just fine. No need to do anything.

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

2019-05-21 Thread Lone_Wolf
On 21-05-2019 16:26, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: On 5/20/19 10:41 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: Hi All, ... In this initial phase I want to ask as many of you to test this as a replacement to mkinitcpio in your setups, as many as possible, and in as many scenari

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

2019-05-21 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 5/20/19 10:41 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi All, > ... > > In this initial phase I want to ask as many of you to test this as a > replacement to mkinitcpio in your setups, > as many as possible, and in as many scenarios as possible. We will ... I'm an arch tester an