Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-08-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 July 2015 21:47:01 James wrote: > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > > > As many know, I have made many failed attempts to get btrfs in raid 1 > > > working on gentoo, and have to this date, failed. > > > > Interesting. I've never had any problems with it. I boot using > > grub2+dra

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread James
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > Sure, if there is interest I can put together something once I'm back home. I'm sure there is an interest in Raid 1 with btrfs on gentoo. If at all possible, I think avoiding mdadm and lvm are advisable to simplify the install and put the focus of the gentoo c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:47 PM, James wrote: > So, a smart (and really cool dude like yourself) surely can take the > handbook, and edit out an experimental version that only address btrfs-raid > one? Sure, if there is interest I can put together something once I'm back home. -- Rich

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread James
prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > > This time I tried "device=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3" in case that was the > > > proper syntax, but it made no discernible difference - bugs.gentoo.org contains a wealth of information in the myriad of btrfs bugs that have been file. Reading those might help you find

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread James
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > > As many know, I have made many failed attempts to get btrfs in raid 1 > > working on gentoo, and have to this date, failed. > Interesting. I've never had any problems with it. I boot using > grub2+dracut with root on a single-device btrfs, and /usr on a > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:50 AM, James wrote: > > As many know, I have made many failed attempts to get btrfs in raid 1 working > on gentoo, and have to this date, failed. > Interesting. I've never had any problems with it. I boot using grub2+dracut with root on a single-device btrfs, and /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread peter
James wrote : > Peter Humphrey writes: > > > > This time I tried "device=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3" in case that was the proper > > syntax, but it made no discernible difference - the final message from the > > kernel panic was the same "VFS: Unable to mount roofs on > > unknown-block(8,3)". > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread James
Peter Humphrey prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > This time I tried "device=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3" in case that was the proper > syntax, but it made no discernible difference - the final message from the > kernel panic was the same "VFS: Unable to mount roofs on > unknown-block(8,3)". Hello Peter, As