Am 23.08.2013 00:44, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
/etc/grub.d/40_custom
Add you entries there, and change the number in the filename to
have them appear before the autogenerated entries.
Thanks for the pointer. Gotta play with that.
On Wed, August 21, 2013 22:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
This sounds like a bug in LVM. If it was down to a version clash, why
did a restart find the PVs?
Sorry, ianap, but I do know that this kind of thing has never happened
to me in my 8+
On 22/08/2013 08:20, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wed, August 21, 2013 22:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
[snip]
No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it
caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root
On Thu, August 22, 2013 08:39, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 22/08/2013 08:20, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wed, August 21, 2013 22:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
[snip]
No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it
caries out a
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:57 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
True, but with the scripts that are floating in this thread, a usable
solution can be build.
It took me a few seconds to do that, so why hasn't it been done before?
It's obviously not due to the work involved, so it must be that no one
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:20:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it
caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root
partition.
The issue mentioned was an example. It was also:
1) The only one I can remember
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:26:38 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
So the only out of sync scenario that should matter is with the
kernel or kernel modules. Even if it were out of sync with your
current toolset it should still be able
to perform the pivot. Shouldn't any userland stuff that
breaks
On Aug 22, 2013 1:28 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Correct, and here lies the cause for the out of sync scenario.
So the only out of sync scenario that should matter is with the
kernel or kernel modules. Even if it were out of sync with your
current toolset it should still be
On 22/08/2013 13:47, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Aug 22, 2013 1:28 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org
mailto:jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Correct, and here lies the cause for the out of sync scenario.
So the only out of sync scenario that should matter is with the
kernel or kernel modules.
On Thu, August 22, 2013 11:07, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:57 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
True, but with the scripts that are floating in this thread, a usable
solution can be build.
It took me a few seconds to do that, so why hasn't it been done before?
It's obviously not
On Thu, August 22, 2013 11:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:20:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it
caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root
partition.
The issue mentioned was an
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:55:58 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
No thanks you. As Alan said, portage doesn't have a mechanism to run a
command after a batch emerge, it would have to be done after every
single package. So the next time a bunch of Perl packages and their
virtuals are updated, look
Am 20.08.2013 08:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and
having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly
recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you.
I'd dig a short and working howto systemd and dracut.
My
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:08:43 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Additionally I would really like to understand how to influence the
default entry for grub2 ... letting grub2-mkconfig detect the available
options is one thing ... but do I really have to count down the
available kernels and
On 08/21/2013 02:13 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:54:26AM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote
No, the kernel has a mini filesystem (doesn't matter which directory
structure has inside), and it
On 2013-08-21 3:06 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 08/21/2013 02:13 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
The worry about falling out of sync, although justified, I think it's
a little overreacted; even for things like LVM2 and NFS, how many
times changes the metadata or format used by
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
update LVM2
kernel remains the same
reboot
initramfs finds all PVS and activates VG
main system init
/etc/init.d/lvm2 start
error can't read from USB PVS
login to system with missing PVS
/etc/init.d/lvm2 restart
all PVS
On 2013-08-21 11:10 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
update LVM2
kernel remains the same
reboot
initramfs finds all PVS and activates VG
main system init
/etc/init.d/lvm2 start
error can't read from USB PVS
login to system with
On 08/21/2013 04:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
update LVM2
kernel remains the same
reboot
initramfs finds all PVS and activates VG
main system init
/etc/init.d/lvm2 start
error can't read from USB PVS
login to system with missing PVS
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 08/21/2013 04:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
update LVM2
kernel remains the same
reboot
initramfs finds all PVS and activates VG
main system init
On 08/21/2013 05:42 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:54 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 08/21/2013 04:10 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
update LVM2
kernel remains the same
reboot
initramfs finds all PVS
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:56 PM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that
takes as argument kernel command line ?
If you are looking to test an initramfs, qemu is handy.
qemu-kvm -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -initrd
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:36 +0100, thegeezer wrote:
anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that
takes as argument kernel command line ?
I posted a script fragment that compares the contents of the kernel's
initramfs config file with the live filesystem. Dracut users
On 2013-08-21 2:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:36 +0100, thegeezer wrote:
anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that
takes as argument kernel command line ?
I posted a script fragment that compares the contents of the
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2013-08-21 2:52 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:36 +0100, thegeezer wrote:
anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that
takes as argument kernel
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
This sounds like a bug in LVM. If it was down to a version clash, why
did a restart find the PVs?
Sorry, ianap, but I do know that this kind of thing has never happened
to me in my 8+ years of running this old system with a separate
On 08/21/2013 07:52 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:36 +0100, thegeezer wrote:
anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that
takes as argument kernel command line ?
I posted a script fragment that compares the contents of the kernel's
initramfs
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:09:41 +0100, thegeezer wrote:
I posted a script fragment that compares the contents of the kernel's
initramfs config file with the live filesystem. Dracut users could use
the same method by parsing the output from lsinitrd.
the script you posted referenced
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2013-08-20 2:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and
having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly
recommend using
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org
wrote:
On 2013-08-20 2:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and
having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly
recommend using
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a
system
booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ?
(I am building the initramsfs
On 20/08/2013 08:44, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a
system
booting with
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a
On 08/20/2013 08:54:26 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what
On 2013-08-20 2:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and
having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly
recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you.
What about a previous posters comment that
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:57:02 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and
having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly
recommend using Dracut. It does everything for you.
What about a previous posters comment that they
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:10:26 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
So, how do/can you *guarantee* that nothing ever gets out of sync?
You could add a custom postinst function to /etc/portage that would
check whether any of the files included in your initramfs are newer than
the initramfs/kernel
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:54:26AM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote
No, the kernel has a mini filesystem (doesn't matter which directory
structure has inside), and it executes the init script (or binary
program) in the root of the initramfs. This init program/script is the
responsible for
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 01:54:26AM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote
No, the kernel has a mini filesystem (doesn't matter which directory
structure has inside), and it executes the init script (or binary
program) in the
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
On 08/19/2013 04:55:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a
system
booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ?
(I am building the initramsfs myself)
Thanks for some hints,
Helmut
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a system
booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ?
(I am building the initramsfs myself)
You need to get your root filesystem and /usr
On 08/19/2013 10:58 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
what binaries and libraries have to be put into an initramfs for a system
booting with init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ?
(I am building the initramsfs myself)
Thanks for some hints,
Helmut
my 2c would be to autobuild one using genkernel or
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