Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 04:03:53PM -0400, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote I answered that already (actually, in that paragraph). But again: udev is not trivial, and it solves a (far from) trivial problem. If some developers think they can outsmart the kernel devs, please, lets try it. Maybe they

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: You give me too much credit :-) There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:56:48 AM Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:25:22 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm lucky, I can vote with my feet. Out of 140, I have two servers that *require* Linux. One runs Sybase ASE, the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, September 09, 2011 07:24:06 PM pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy that's responsible for

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:56:48 AM Dale wrote: I sometimes think people get tired of the chatter box. lol I wonder if I am on somebody's blacklist? :/ If you are, that person is missing out on some good entertainment :) That may depend on my meds. lol

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 08:44:20 PM James Wall wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: What about the following as a gentoo-solution: As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't /usr be mounted right after /? Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to have /usr mounted before udev and colleagues

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:59:41 -0500, Dale wrote: http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml I had absolutely no idea I sent *that* much mail to gentoo-user :-) Me either. That's when I had to accept that I was a true chatter box. O_O I wonder if Neil knows this? He

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Me either. That's when I had to accept that I was a true chatter box. O_O I wonder if Neil knows this? He may not realize how many he sends either. Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me?

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? girlfriend says that Alan and Neil are both male bald middle-aged pedantic old gits with a fascination for the writing of Douglas Adams. And they are both

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:37:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: So I wonder what Neil will write about this. He seems to be lying low. Just in an area with very poor Internet access. I'm back in England now :) -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 31: Small crowd signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:45:44 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't /usr be mounted right after /? Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to have /usr mounted before udev and colleagues start? Because

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? Whoops, which should be: I tend to confuse Alan _with_ Neil. But then, both may be right. No, it's not only you. Dale confuses the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, September 12, 2011 09:49:22 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:45:44 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't /usr be mounted right after /? Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I'd like to know why these functions cannot be separated, run the command to populate /dev early on, then start the udev daemon after the filesystems have been mounted. Some sort of early boot rules file would need to be used

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, September 12, 2011 10:13:45 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I'd like to know why these functions cannot be separated, run the command to populate /dev early on, then start the udev daemon after the filesystems have been

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:34:17 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: I wonder if it could be done more simply. udevd loads but only parses those rule files marked as suitable for early boot time. Later in the boot it switches to full mode and loads all rule files. This is so simple it is either

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote: If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations? He is, because a Gentoo user/dev explicitly pointed out the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote: On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote: If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations?

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote: His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way more people use Fedora/Debian/etc than Gentoo so I'm tailoring my fix to those people combined with a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote: His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way more people use

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday, September 12, 2011 11:29:12 AM Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote: His response, to me,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveldjo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote: His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way more people use Fedora/Debian/etc than Gentoo so I'm tailoring my fix to those

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500, James Wall wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: [snip] I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts.  These scan the current logical volumes and generate

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:16:48 +1000 Paul Colquhoun paul...@andor.dropbear.id.au wrote: I've had a look at the stuff at those links, and some of what they link to in turn, and had a bit of a think about it. Looking at initramfs as a modern Linux replacement for the bootable / partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 9/10/2011 5:28 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:19:10 -0400 Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening. That is another thing that bothers me. When

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 11, 2011 3:25 PM, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: It would make perfect sense to me for the udev maintainer to simply declare a split /,/usr not supported and let us deal with the issues. The problem, if I'm reading correctly, is that he's taken things one step further and decided

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 10 September 2011 23:35:56 Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: And they are both grammar Nazis. And I thought that was Peter Humphrey... or are all of you the same person? Who can tell. First among equals? And seventh on the list! She is not in the least surprised

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread pk
On 2011-09-10 18:09, Dale wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening. That is another thing that bothers me. When devs stop listening to users, that causes a AFAIU he doesn't listen to people not running RHEL/Fedora (or any of the big binary distros). For a binary distro, that

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: === On Sun, 09/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === Interesting. What are the advantages? Mainly that it's simpler, as a bootloader should be. However it does have some nice features, such as making nice looking, interactive menus. You can also edit the config file by hand, if

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Colquhoun writes: Looking at initramfs as a modern Linux replacement for the bootable / partition of traditional Unix systems does make some sense, even though I think it could be made simpler. Fot those opposed to initramfs, would you also object to /boot being 1) a manditory

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Dale
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:24:06 PM pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy that's responsible

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:24:06 PM pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. So, that is done. I also have a 200Mb /boot partition. It sometimes gets about half full but I could just clean out old kernels more often. I could always make /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. So, that is done. I also have a 200Mb /boot partition

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread Dale
David W Noon wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always ext2. So, that is done. I also have a 200Mb /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread James Wall
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote: I always have /boot on a separate partition and it is always

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:25:22 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm lucky, I can vote with my feet. Out of 140, I have two servers that *require* Linux. One runs Sybase ASE, the other runs Oracle. Everything else works like a bomb on FreeBSD. kthankxbyeudev,

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread pk
On 2011-09-10 03:49, Dale wrote: If I recall correctly, Gentoo is sort of based on BSD. I don't think using their target would solve the problem with udev tho. FreeBSD uses Ports which Portage is based on, AIUI. The FreeBSD kernel doesn't use udev. They do have a similar thing though called

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:58:23 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may go the BSD route too if I leave Gentoo. So, my feet works too. I wonder if I would even be missed here? :/ I'd hate it if you

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:23:42 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 19:24:06 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: You give me too much credit :-) There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly recall right now. This here

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:25:22 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm lucky, I can vote with my feet. Out of 140, I have two servers that *require* Linux. One runs Sybase ASE, the other runs Oracle. Everything else works like a bomb on FreeBSD.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that link again. Here it

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 10 Sep 2011 08:36:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:23:42 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 19:24:06 schrieb pk: On

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: I know one thing, BSD is secure as heck. I installed it once on a old rig and typed the password in wrong during setup. I never could get into that thing again. I had to start over. That's what you thought :) Normally, all you have to do is to boot in single user mode, this

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 10, 2011 10:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: I've flirted with Slackware before I came over to Gentoo and the reason I chose Gentoo is because it gave me more freedom to built and configure an OS exactly as I wanted it. I was at the time thinking of trying BSD with portage, but when I was keeping an eye on it there was this

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening.  That is another thing that bothers me.  When devs stop listening to users, that causes a problem.  Remember hal?  How many people complained early on about the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:54:58 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a year ago so it may have changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 10, 2011 11:22 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, nothing of udev itself is in /usr, but instead packages and scripts which plug themselves into udev to be triggered by various events. Perhaps the real solution is to circumvent udev and get those other

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening. That is another thing that bothers me. When devs stop listening to users, that causes a problem. Remember hal? How many people complained

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Sep 10, 2011 11:22 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, nothing of udev itself is in /usr, but instead packages and scripts which plug themselves into udev to be triggered by various events.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: You give me too much credit :-) There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:33 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: You give me too much credit :-) There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Actually, thats a bit optimistic - 2002 moriah ~ # ls -alth /var/backups/rattus/20110710/tree/etc/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Sep 6 2003 hsf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root80 May 13 2003 sysconfig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root72 Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Me either. That's when I had to accept that I was a true chatter box. O_O I wonder if Neil knows this? He may not realize how many he sends either. Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:19:10 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: From my understanding, the dev is not listening.  That is another thing that bothers me.  When devs stop listening to users, that causes

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? girlfriend says that Alan and Neil are both male bald middle-aged pedantic old gits with a fascination for the writing of Douglas Adams. And they are both grammar Nazis. She is not in the least

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Fri, 09/09, Alex Schuster wrote: === What I fear much more is when good old grub is no longer supported and I have to use grub2, which I tried to understand, but failed. === Ya, it's horrid. But the {sys,ext}linux bootloader is still there and maintained and I like it better. I use

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only me? At least I know by now that you are the South Africa guy. Alan's girlfriend says that Alan and Neil are both male

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Keith Dart writes: === On Fri, 09/09, Alex Schuster wrote: === What I fear much more is when good old grub is no longer supported and I have to use grub2, which I tried to understand, but failed. Ya, it's horrid. But the {sys,ext}linux bootloader is still there and maintained and I like

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sun, 09/11, Alex Schuster wrote: === Interesting. What are the advantages? Mainly that it's simpler, as a bootloader should be. However it does have some nice features, such as making nice looking, interactive menus. You can also edit the config file by hand, if you need to, and it's all

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:24:06 PM pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy that's responsible for this crap:

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Mick
On Friday 09 Sep 2011 00:26:33 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:39:21 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Friday 09 Sep 2011 00:26:33 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: In the case of Gentoo, the dialog is having place in the dev list, at this very moment. In the case of Fedora (and, I think, OpenSuse), the dialog is actually over. The Gentoo devs are just going with the flow. (This is how I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:03:53 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: No, I think you haven't been reading carefully enough. Again: 1. In 2011, we need a dynamic /dev tree. I'm not going to argue why. 2. udev, successor of devfs, which was successor of the classical /dev tree, after years of design and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Paul Colquhoun wrote: From my point of view, as an old Solaris admin, point 3) is the problem. If what-ever-it-is is needed during boot, it should be in /sbin or /bin or /lib If it is curently in /usr/* then it is in the wrong place, and that package should be modified. Later in the thread

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 06:55:32 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I htink almost everyone understand this. Regards. I think you are one of *very* few that understands this. This reminds

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:53:26 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Colquhoun wrote: From my point of view, as an old Solaris admin, point 3) is the problem. If what-ever-it-is is needed during boot, it should be in /sbin or /bin or /lib If it is curently in /usr/* then it is in the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 08, 2011 03:01:10 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:35 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2011-09-08 16:51, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: But the freedom is still there. The

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:34:56 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need every possible thing that udev could ever run to be avialable on /, just the things that are essential. That is quite a small list subset of the full list of all possible devices: All HID

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Wow, what a big thread. While I also do not really like udev requiring /usr at boot time, I also understand that there are some arguments pro doing so. But then, I wonder what the big deal is. If an initramfs is now required for people using a separate /usr, then let's all use an

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will be too small to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only 32 MiB, and that will

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Mick
On Friday 09 Sep 2011 12:35:47 Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Wow, what a big thread. While I also do not really like udev requiring /usr at boot time, I also understand that there are some arguments pro doing so. But then, I wonder what the big deal is. If an initramfs is now required

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition is only

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I htink almost everyone understand this. Regards. I think you are one of *very* few that understands

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread pk
On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel --install --lvm -luks all, and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel --install

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: pk writes: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread pk
On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy that's responsible for this crap: http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ocw/users/58 Also:

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 19:24:06 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy that's responsible for

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Alex Schuster
David W Noon writes: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2011-09-09 13:35, Alex Schuster wrote: When I switched to using an initramfs, it was not very complicated. I simply use genkernel. With CLEAN=no and MRPROPER=no, it uses my /usr/src/linux/.config and does not change the kernel options. Then comes genkernel --install --lvm -luks

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Right, I somehow overlooked this, thanks for pointing that out. Dale, if you want to avoid the initramfs, what about moving large stuff like /usr/src to another location and symlinking it? That's a hack, but a small one compared to what an initramfs is :) Wonko I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 19:24:06 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from me too! ;-) It _may_ be this guy

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: David W Noon writes: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Freitag, 9. September 2011, 19:24:06 schrieb pk: On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote: Can I slap whoever started this?  The more I think on this, the worse it Yes Dale, you have my permission!

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm lucky, I can vote with my feet. Out of 140, I have two servers that *require* Linux. One runs Sybase ASE, the other runs Oracle. Everything else works like a bomb on FreeBSD. kthankxbyeudev, thanksfornotplayingnicely Not everyone else is so fortunate though. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may go the BSD route too if I leave Gentoo.  So, my feet works too.  I wonder if I would even be missed here?  :/ I'd hate it if you left. In the short time I've been on this list, your usage habits and history are the ones I've

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: Doesn't Gentoo have a BSD target? The problem here is with udev, which doesn't apply to BSD, AFAIK. Gentoo/BSD might be a good direction to go. Also, where does FreeBSD's kernel stand, with respect to device drivers? If I recall correctly, Gentoo is sort of based on BSD.

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I may go the BSD route too if I leave Gentoo. So, my feet works too. I wonder if I would even be missed here? :/ I'd hate it if you left. In the short time I've been on this list, your usage habits and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:30:16 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Because you can't boot from an LV, so you'd than need a separate /boot and an initramfs. Without LVM, you are unlikely to be able to resize / or /usr as it is not usually the last partition on the drive. So, you guys want a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Mittwoch, 7. September 2011, 23:33:35 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the initramfs will be many times larger than the kernel itself. Indeed, my /boot partition

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:23:45 -0400 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: I wound up being able to recover by doing a full reinstall of all packages on the live system after mounting /usr into a freshly-mkfs'd new lvm volume. If I'd taken the system offline, it would have been much

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