[gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On 03/18/2012 10:44 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Creating a new thread for this questions since mine got lost in all > of the follow-ups... I actually read a good response, but I can't possibly find it again :) I do recall that it said to look at your grub.conf (menu.lst) to see if grub passes an initrd

[gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: > The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter in > grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in 10 > seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you test > (remotely) if a kernel parameter like "noinitrd" break

[gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:44:07 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > I cannot imagine that gentoo is just going to throw me to the wolves > like this without providing *in-depth* instructions on how to make > sure my system will boot after this update, like they did with the > baselayout-2 update... They pla

[gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2012 5:31 AM, "walt" > wrote: >> >> On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: >> >>> The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter >>> in grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On Mar 19, 2012 5:31 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: > > > The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter in > > grub.conf (menu.lst) so that your remote system will reboot in 10 > > seconds if the kernel panics during boot. That will let you test > > (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On Mar 19, 2012 9:41 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On 03/18/2012 04:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On Mar 19, 2012 5:31 AM, "walt" > > wrote: > >> > >> On 03/18/2012 11:52 AM, walt wrote: > >> > >>> The other nifty hint was to add "panic=10" as a kernel parameter > >>> in gru

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Initramfs or move /usr to /, oh my...

On Mon, March 19, 2012 1:31 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > When I started administering remote servers, Citrix's XenServer is Good > Enough™ to deploy in production, so now it's the first thing I install > on a > virgin box, even if said virgin box will host only one VM. > > This provides me with a u