On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:03:04PM +1100, wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 09:56:09PM +0100, Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: <snip> > systemd. Maybe i could adopt that to my custom one as well. </snip>
Working examples are always nice :-) > > The other point I might add is that my system, which uses dracut, has > > systemd launched with some specific arguments: > > > > ps -fp 1 > > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > > root 1 0 0 11:31 ? 00:00:00 > > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 18 > > > > This may be relevant when creating your own initramfs. > > Thanks, thats something i could try as well :) I'm not sure of the relevancy (it was just an observation), and I'm not sure how the options (specifically --deserialize NN) is determined since another of my machines has /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 19 > > > First of all, with systemd installed I can't install lvm2 with the > > > static use flag anymore, which is mandatory for being able using it for > > > a initramfs. Why isn't that possible? How can I use the lvm binaries for > > > my initramfs? > > > > Again, as I think has been mentioned, the 'static' use flag is typically > > a shortcut for easily building an initrd. Provided you include all the > > dependencies of a given binary (as seen with `ldd /path/to/binary`) you > > don't need static binaries. > > Yeah, now i was digging a bit further into static binaries. If I insert the > relevant libaries it should work too. :) > However i was wondering why lvm2 shouldn't be able to build with the > static flag on systemd. However that's not important any more, i'm just > curious :) This *is* odd, but without a build log we can't really tell (unless someone else has encountered the issue too). > Well, at the wiki it's written you should run: > genkernel --udev --lvm > in order to generate the initramfs. But, you already mentioned it, you > need a target in order generate anything, but it isn't mentioned at the > wiki. > As i'm not familar with genkernel i was a bit confused about the > command. I would suggest following for example: > genkernel --udev --lvm [target] Fixed :-) Cheers. -- wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> GnuPG Key: B2D9F759
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