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

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 -

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

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

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:

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:

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

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

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

2019-05-27 Thread Ali Emre Gülcü via arch-general
> > 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 USB, and > using your main HDD(partition) as the rootfs. > > Note, every time you update the

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

2019-05-27 Thread Artur Juraszek via arch-general
In addition to this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dual_boot_with_Windows Jason Ryan via arch-general writes: > On 27/05/19 at 11:08am, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: >> Hello Archers, >> I am planning to install Arch on a dual boot with windows 10. But i have >> read online that on a

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

2019-05-27 Thread Yi Zheng via arch-general
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 USB, and using your main HDD(partition) as the rootfs. Note, every time you update the kernel, you must