On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:58:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Sorry for necro-posting, but I wanted to “add my mustard”, as we say over
here.
> > > Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT?
> >
> > Your guess is as good as mine!
> > […]
>
> Perhaps the ability to hear the computer
On Tue, Apr 03 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:43:16 -0400
> Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> I forgot one of the commands alan wanted to see. Here it is.
>> allan
>
>
> I really did want to look at this thoroughly for you, but I've been
> flat on my back with some illness or other
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:43:16 -0400
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I forgot one of the commands alan wanted to see. Here it is.
> allan
I really did want to look at this thoroughly for you, but I've been
flat on my back with some illness or other for a few days.
Do you still need my eyeballs on this
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:26:43 +0800, wdk@moriah wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On 29/03/2012, at 20:01, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > At present, the first thing I see when udev starts is a failed
> > attempt to run /usr/sbin/alsactl to restore t
On 29/03/2012, at 20:01, David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
>> David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
>>> The Gentoo develope
On 2012-03-29 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Reminds me of Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest - she was
> the bimbo who announced to the room whenever the computer went bing
:-D
An underrated movie which contains a lot of geek and "Star Trek"/"SciFi
in general" parody... Thumbs up! :-D
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:01:49 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> > David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
> > > The Gento
On 2012-03-29 20:06, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I wait with bated breath. Even if less than perfect, it will be
> better than mine :)
I'll be sure to let you know if I find "perfection"... Perhaps an AI
system that takes care of it self and serves me drinks (with or
without an umbrella) while I lay o
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:14:31 +0200, pk wrote:
> But this is quite pointless (my whining)
> since, as someone else mentioned, "code talks...". Perhaps some day I
> can find the time to hack my own solution (which of course will be
> perfection ;-) ).
I wait with bated breath. Even if less than per
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>
>
>> Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do
>> updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue!
>
> I wonder how many threads we'll get with "I haven't updated my Gentoo for
> over a year, how do
On 2012-03-29 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I'm in favour of /bin and /lib, and I see the pros and cons of
> /sbin and am not too bothered about how that is done. But having
> two (or more) of each of these is an artificial mess that is a
> solution to a problem that
As I said, it's a matter o
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:08:40 -0400, Doug Hunley wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon
> wrote:
[snip]
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the daemons that
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:21:15 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> > That, IMO, is the problem with the current filesystem layout. The
>> > split between / and /usr is anything but well-defined. Putting things
>> > in different boxes based on their
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:21:15 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > That, IMO, is the problem with the current filesystem layout. The
> > split between / and /usr is anything but well-defined. Putting things
> > in different boxes based on their function is good practice. Doing it
> > based on some arbitra
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:21:11 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> There is so much BS being spewed around this topic, I'm genuinely
>> disgusted. It's enough to lead me to suspect that Linux, as a
>> platform, is *dying*.
>
> It's not dying, it's e
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
>> David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
>> > With the pending c
On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do
> updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue!
I wonder how many threads we'll get with "I haven't updated my Gentoo for
over a year, how do I best do the upgrade?" from people fo
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:28:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > The Gentoo developers have been discussing just that. The reason is
> > that many of the d
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:21:11 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> There is so much BS being spewed around this topic, I'm genuinely
> disgusted. It's enough to lead me to suspect that Linux, as a
> platform, is *dying*.
It's not dying, it's evolving - with the associated growing pains. Of
course, that's n
I forgot one of the commands alan wanted to see. Here it is.
allan
ajglap gottlieb # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 b
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:20:04 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
> > David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
> > > With th
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> What you describe sounds ok, but I'd still hesitate to give a definite
> answer without a little more data.
>
> If you send over the output of
>
> df -h
> du -shx for each partition you have
> fdisk -l
> pvdisplay
> vgdisplay
> lvdisplay
>
> I'll be hap
David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
>> David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
>>> With the pending changes to udev scripts, yo
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
>
>
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:04 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>> > So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may
>> > as well use Fedora since it sort of started there. May
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:58:23 +0200, pk wrote:
> organisation and I happen to be on the side which thinks the FHS
> rationalisation for /bin, /sbin, /lib is a neat one. Others thinks the
> neatest solution is to put everything into one directory (whatever that
> may be) and that's fine too, if ther
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
> > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could well need /var
> > -- and anything else --
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100
> > David W Noon wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 27
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:40:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100
> David W Noon wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re:
> > [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS
On 2012-03-28 20:29, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I was particularly interested to find out that Solaris started merging / and
> /usr 15 years ago, so in reality, the "true UNIX way" that Linux is
> following has long since been abandoned by UNIX :)
Yep, next up is transitioning to a more modern handl
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:20:23 +0100
David W Noon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
> InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:51:23 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:47:06 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> > > Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init
> > > script and a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs
> > > file is a plain cpio archive, and post it
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:20:25 -0400
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will
> > shuffle things around just like in that 15 pieces game.
>
> This sounds encouraging. My disk is less than half full so s
>
> Then
> copy /usr over:
>mount -o bind / /mnt
>mount -o remount,ro /usr
>cp -a /usr/* /mnt/
> The bind moun t makes the root FS appear in a 2nd place, without /usr
> being populated by the content of your /usr partition.
> Don't forget to remove /usr from /etc/fstab.
>
I
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:04 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> > So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may
> > as well use Fedora since it sort of started there. Maybe that is what
> > they wanted and planned.
>
> According to
Allan Gottlieb writes:
> On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Move partitions after / on the disk out of the way creating enough
> > free space to contain current / and /usr.
>
> Question. /dev/sda7 is LVM and that is used for /usr, /local, et al.
> How do I move an LVM partition? I c
On Tue, Mar 27 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> All you need is a decent amount of free disk space as you will shuffle
> things around just like in that 15 pieces game.
This sounds encouraging. My disk is less than half full so space is not
an issue.
> Assuming / is the first (or second) partition
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:04 -0500, Dale wrote:
> So throw out my plans and just do it their way? In that case, I may as
> well use Fedora since it sort of started there. Maybe that is what they
> wanted and planned.
According to Greg K-H, who I tend to trust, this did not come from Red
Hat. It
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:47:06 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> > Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init script
>> > and a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs file is a
>> > plain cpio archive, and post it here.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:47:06 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Why not post the details of it? All an initramfs is is an init script
> > and a few binaries. Extract the init script, the initramfs file is a
> > plain cpio archive, and post it here.
>
> I did post it a week or so ago in another thread.
Th
On Tuesday 03/27/12 21:19:00 CST, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been looking for simple method to create a simple
> > initramfs to just mount the /usr partition.
> >
> > I've found
> > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_ch
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 18:18 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
>
> I love genkernel, it just makes life so much easier, you don't have
> enter every command manually. And still keeps it the gentoo-way: you can
> configure e
David W Noon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
> InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [snip]
>>> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no
>>> longer a problem. Sor
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
[snip]
>> Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no
>> longer a problem. Sorted.
And /var ??
> But what about using LVM? Peo
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500
>>> Dale wrote:
>>>
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale
> wrote:
> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly
>> isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just reinstall
>> and not format /home.
>
> That's why ${DEITY} gave us backups: no need
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
> That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly
> isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just reinstall
> and not format /home.
That's why ${DEITY} gave us backups: no need to reinstall just roll back
to t
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no
>>> idea how to fix it. None at all.
>>
>> I understand. My question is why are you even using th
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:31:06 -0500
Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500
> > Dale wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale
> >>> wrote:
> >>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
> switch to
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>>
>> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no
>> idea how to fix it. None at all.
>
> I understand. My question is why are you even using the initrd?
> There's no requirement to use it today, at
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
switch to another distro
>>>
>>>
>>> Just remember, with distros it's the d
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500
> Dale wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>
I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it
doesn't work like it should for me, there's no point in me using
it.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:59:30 -0500
Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale wrote:
> >
> > Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
> >> switch to another distro
> >
> >
> > Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devi
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> Right now, if Gentoo fails to boot because of the init thingy, I have no
> idea how to fix it. None at all.
I understand. My question is why are you even using the initrd?
There's no requirement to use it today, at least on stable. There's
not ev
Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
>
>> Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other
>> post.
>> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another
>> distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working o
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
>> switch to another distro
>
>
> Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devil you
> don't know...
>
> I don't understand why any of this /us
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500
Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it
> >> doesn't work like it should for me, there's no point in me using
> >> it. If I wanted a OS that doesn'
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it doesn't
>> work like it should for me, there's no point in me using it. If I
>> wanted a OS that doesn't work well for me, I'd be buying M$'s crap.
>> Hey, it does
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:20:45 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
>
> > Yes it is, I now I used to waste my time like that. Now I have a
> > config
> file that
> > lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the kernel build
> automatically
> >
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Thing is, I can't get dracut to boot a system as I use it. See my other post.
> Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either switch to another
> distro, hope someone figures out why dracut isn't working or just move
> everything to / an
> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk]
> Yes it is, I now I used to waste my time like that. Now I have a config
file that
> lists what needs to go into the initramfs and the kernel build
automatically
> pulls everything in for me. The only other thing I need is the init
script. So I
>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote:
> I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it doesn't
> work like it should for me, there's no point in me using it. If I
> wanted a OS that doesn't work well for me, I'd be buying M$'s crap.
> Hey, it does install fairly fast but it
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Sebastian Beßler wrote:
>>> On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote:
May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon.
>>>
>>> Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of
>>> the Ubuntu family anymore. That means mu
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Dale wrote:
Right now, my plan is to mask udev at what it is and either
> switch to another distro
Just remember, with distros it's the device you know for the devil you
don't know...
I don't understand why any of this /usr /udev stuff is bothering you.
Do you
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I don't understand why people always say that they hate genkernel
>>> because they like to build the kernel on their own. You still can do
>>> this with genkernel. I've been doing it for years.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Dale wrote:
> Sebastian Beßler wrote:
>> On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote:
>>> May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon.
>>
>> Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of
>> the Ubuntu family anymore. That means much less money and much less
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:30:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
> The other way around. When I boot using the init thingy, if I login as
> a user, dale in this case, I can not su to root. I think the error was
> something like authentication failed or something to that effect.
>
> I can reboot the exact same k
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:09:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > copy old config
> > make oldconfig
> > make all && make modules_install
> > copy kernel to /boot
make all modules_install install
does everything the last two lines do in a single command.
> >
> > That to me seems a LOT easier and it als
Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote:
>> May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon.
>
> Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of
> the Ubuntu family anymore. That means much less money and much less
> manpower. And if this issue with a init-thingy
On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote:
> May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon.
Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of
the Ubuntu family anymore. That means much less money and much less
manpower. And if this issue with a init-thingy bothers you, Kubuntu will
be living
Mike Edenfield wrote:
>> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
>
>> Mike Edenfield wrote:
>
>>> I'm pretty sure that a stable Dracut is a prerequisite for a stable
>>> udev-182+. Hopefully with more people taking interest in using an
>>> initramfs it will stabilize quickly. It's working for me
> From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com]
> Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that a stable Dracut is a prerequisite for a stable
> > udev-182+. Hopefully with more people taking interest in using an
> > initramfs it will stabilize quickly. It's working for me on all of the
> > systems I
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Dale wrote:
> Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand why people always say that they hate genkernel
>> because they like to build the kernel on their own. You still can do
>> this with genkernel. I've been doing it for years.
>
>
> I tried genkernel and
Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
>> that than genkernel (I very much like building my own kernels; it
>> helps me keep things lean, and keeps me familiar with the capabilities
>> of current and future systems). But now I have to find t
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
>> that than genkernel (I very much like building my own kernels; it
>> helps me keep things lean, and keeps me familiar with the capabilities
>> of current and future
> Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
> that than genkernel (I very much like building my own kernels; it
> helps me keep things lean, and keeps me familiar with the capabilities
> of current and future systems). But now I have to find time to learn
> how to use Ge
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:20:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> With the latest genkernel, my initrd mounts /usr, however the fsck is
> never done because its mounted -- any solution for this?
ISTR this coming up recently and the solution being to run fsck from the
shutdown runlevel.
--
Nei
Mike Edenfield wrote:
>>> If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The default
>>> installation (no use-flags or optional modules) will product an
>>> initramfs that loads whatever you current rootfs and /usr partitions are.
>>>
>>> I've been working on updating the wiki with more detai
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:30:41 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
> > If we're going to be shoved into tight space like this, I'd be nice if
> > the "you can just use $x" tools work on stable. I've got three
> > previously-working systems at home I can't risk rebooting right now
>
> > If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The default
> > installation (no use-flags or optional modules) will product an
> > initramfs that loads whatever you current rootfs and /usr partitions are.
> >
> > I've been working on updating the wiki with more detailed
> > instructions;
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:30:41 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> If we're going to be shoved into tight space like this, I'd be nice if
> the "you can just use $x" tools work on stable. I've got three
> previously-working systems at home I can't risk rebooting right now
> because of this udev+/usr nonsens
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been looking for simple method to create a simple
>> initramfs to just mount the /usr partition.
>>
>> I've found
>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_
On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking for simple method to create a simple
initramfs to just mount the /usr partition.
I've found
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr
If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut. The
def
Hi,
I've been looking for simple method to create a simple initramfs to
just mount the /usr partition.
I've found
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr
which didn't work for me. So, I've modified it, see
http://www.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/jarausch/Temp/InitRAM
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