Re: [gentoo-user] LLVM and friends is not compatible.

2021-12-06 Thread Dale
. As soon as I try and stop it, > by saying "don't automount /boot", or "don't actually install the > initramfs", all hell breaks loose. > > In the past, genkernel's always worked fine for me. That's why I use > it - dracut looks a lot more complicated ... but when genke

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot up error messages. Init thingy needed now??

2015-02-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Planning to test them here shortly. Then to see how long before it flunks the test, like last time I used this thing. I also realized I have a spare 750GB drive to. That could come in handy. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Well, it seems this went fairly well. I saw dracut stuff

[gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-28 Thread John Covici
I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I have found dracut very nice

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Thanks everyone, I've nailed it \o/ A more detailed story follows. After taking the approach of offloading / and /usr checks to Dracut I've disabled fsck for those partitions in /etc/fstab so OpenRC fsck wouldn't attempt to check /usr (and fail) by setting passno (the last column to 0

[gentoo-user] dracut and the init thingy

2012-01-01 Thread Dale
Howdy, I been messing with this init thing again. I installed dracut, Googled like a mad man and finally got something to work, I think. Here is some info: root@fireball / # dmesg | grep dracut [3.378296] dracut: Checking reiserfs: /dev/sda3 [3.378644] dracut: issuing reiserfsck

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [120309 21:55]: Howdy, [..] [0.787822] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... It found your initramfs... [0.867787] Freeing initrd memory: 5084k freed The followng look like they're from your Dracut initramfs [0.880111] audit: initializing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-04-03 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: It was the debug stuff; every line that look like dracut: + stuff here was debugging information; AFAICT dracut mounted /dev/sda3 as root then it mounted the two other partitions it found. But this could be a problem (from your other email): root@fireball

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It spit out

[gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It spit out a bunch of stuff about not finding things that I know is installed

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel, mounting /usr and dmraid

2012-04-15 Thread Keith Dart
Re 20120414162015.6983b502@dartworks.biz20120414162015.6983b...@dartworks.biz, Canek Peláez Valdés said: I don't use genkernel, but have you tried dracut? Just add dmraid to MODULES_DRACUT, and try to generate an initramfs with dracut -H. dracut takes care of everything udev related

[gentoo-user] Help with dracut, please

2022-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm installing Gentoo on a new Juno laptop, and I've reached the point of booting into the new system. I have a separate /usr partition and I'm using dracut to create an initramfs. On booting the new system I get an error I haven't heard of before: dracut complaining "sysroo

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I don't know if it's true or not. dracut wants you to have loadable module /support/ in your kernel so it can scan for modules needed by the rootfs. The kernel-module support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-04-03 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Edenfield wrote: It was the debug stuff; every line that look like dracut: + stuff here was debugging information; AFAICT dracut mounted /dev/sda3 as root then it mounted the two other partitions it found

Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since

[gentoo-user] problems with dracut

2021-02-12 Thread John Covici
Hi. I am having problems running dracut 0.51-r2 and 0.50-r2. The problem is that I have two install_items lines like this install_items+= /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf install_items+= /etc/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.service and dracut says permission denied on both of them. They are owned

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-10 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: * Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [120309 21:55]: Howdy, [..] [0.787822] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... It found your initramfs... [0.867787] Freeing initrd memory: 5084k freed The followng look like they're from your Dracut initramfs

[gentoo-user] dracut: mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/usr does not exist

2014-03-16 Thread Dale
-0:1.0: hub_suspend [2.591682] usb usb8: bus auto-suspend, wakeup 1 [3.362374] dracut: root has been mounted 29 times without being checked, check forced. [3.363014] dracut: root: 28323/1525920 files (0.4% non-contiguous), 580665/6102684 blocks [3.364957] dracut: Mounting /dev/disk

[gentoo-user] /usr/tmp - /var/tmp a problem with new udev?

2012-08-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I realize that new udev without dracut wants /usr part of root filesystem. The last few gentoo installations I have done all had /usr/tmp symlinked to /var/tmp and I don't believe I did this symlink manually. Will this be a problem with new udev and no dracut or are the programs that must run

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-15 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Mike Gilbert wrote: In older versions of the dracut ebuild (sys-kernel/dracut-036), DRACUT_MODULES was used to select which modules to install. In newer versions, DRACUT_MODULES is no longer used; instead, all modules are installed every time. That's why you see all the flags

Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-28 Thread Rich Freeman
date in a few weeks and I like to check >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I >> > have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I >> > have found d

[gentoo-user] dracut and UUID's

2019-02-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi all,     I have cloned a gentoo image for a raspberry pi to another sdcard.  It fails to boot because the storage uuid's have changed and dracut has the previous uuid's stored internally.  Is there a way around this without changing the new storage's uuids back to match the original (its bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
, and such on LVM.  I been using that dracut thingy to build the init thingy.  Sorry, I'm full of thingys tonight.  Maybe I need my meds?  Anyway, the init thingy seems to be working, I think.  I asked a while back how to tell for sure but it didn't get any replies so I am not real sure it is.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-09 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I keep my /usr partition in /, but seeing the modules from dracut, the magic happens at: /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98usrmount/mount-usr.sh Basically, it seems that if /usr is specified in /etc/fstab, then dracut will mount it. It says nothing about LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 07:09, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Let me try to update this test VM to see if I can hit the same issue as you. OK, I updated everything, and I certainly hit an issue. With sys-kernel/dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 4/2/2012 11:12 PM, Dale wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Actually, the initramfs finished without a single error: between [1.962007] dracut: + source_conf /etc/conf.d and [2.395576] dracut: Switching root there is not a single error. The initramfs did what it needed to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Dracut and how to specify names

2020-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
I had saved didn't work but the second did.  First was > likely from a much older version of dracut.  Do you know what changed > between dracut-046-r1 and dracut-048-r1?  I ran into this once before > when a major version number changed.  There was an elog message when the latest dracut e

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-09 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I keep my /usr partition in /, but seeing the modules from dracut, the magic happens at: /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98usrmount/mount-usr.sh Basically, it seems that if /usr is specified in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
updated everything, and I certainly hit an issue. With sys-kernel/dracut-037, I cannot boot; it gets stuck after loading the initramfs and it complains about not able to mounting /. This happens even with the patch on [1]. With sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4, everything works perfectly. I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Barchuk
John, > I bet you are using genkernel or gentoo-next to generate your initrd. Exactly. Probably got lost in between the file contents: > I use LVM on LUKS container for my partitions and an initramfs built with genkernel. > You might have better luck using Dracut Thank you for the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr partition

2022-09-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:16 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 1. dracut: 90crypt: Could not find any command of '/lib/systemd/systemd- > cryptsetup cryptsetup'! > > ...and similar for bluetooth. > > What do I have to include in /etc/dracut.conf.d/mine.conf to silence

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: [snip] and a shiny new bug for dracut as well: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509492 That looks like a reasonable explanation. But it could be something else. So even more moving parts for me no :-P In my

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [ It's been more than a week since I last participated in the thread, so I'm just replying to my last participation. ] Stefan, have you tried to run dracut --print-cmdline and add that to your kernel command line

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-15 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
tried to run dracut --print-cmdline and add that to your kernel command line? By the last thread related to systemd+dracut, that solved my problems when using dracut 037. Could you try to see if it solves your issues? Also, I just noticed the --hostonly-cmdline option. Have you tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-15 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: In older versions of the dracut ebuild (sys-kernel/dracut-036), DRACUT_MODULES was used to select which modules to install. In newer versions, DRACUT_MODULES is no longer used; instead, all modules are installed every time. That's why you see all the flags in parentheses

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with dracut

2021-02-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 9:39 AM John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I am having problems running dracut 0.51-r2 and 0.50-r2. The > problem is that I have two install_items lines like this > install_items+= /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf > install_items+= /etc/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

2021-09-25 Thread Rich Freeman
le I wrote ages ago. I no longer use this but it is a quick recipe for how to create your own dracut module: https://rich0gentoo.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/a-quick-dracut-module/ It is really easy to tweak dracut, and it has a lot of automagic functionality which means you mostly only need to worry

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Canek Peláez Valdés [mailto:can...@gmail.com] I agree with most of what you say; however, I believe you are mistaken about the static nature of the binaries in the initramfs created by dracut. I use dracut with the whole bang (plymouth, systemd, udev, you name it), and I don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: To the OP.  I would use dracut.  I ran into trouble but I found out later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut init thingy to mess up.  I strongly suspect that if I had known to get

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck separate /usr

2012-05-13 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Not with mine :) Maybe I'll give dracut a try. It seems to be a nice utility, and I was about to try it, but then I read about Dale's problems and decided to stay with genkernel for a while. Wonko I'm not sure but I think the reason I was having so much

[gentoo-user] dracut vs. genkernel

2013-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
(or lately genkernel-next) to build and install my kernels/modules. Yes, it's uncool, but so far it worked for me and it was comfortable. In my discussion with one of the devs of the systemd-love-overlay he pointed me at dracut to generate my initramfs. Never used it before and so I am still

Re: [gentoo-user] My first initramfs

2013-11-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
of my confusion stems from use of the word 'modules' above? Remember, the system I am talking about has always had kernel module support completely disabled (everything is built into the kernel). In dracut, you can add kernel modules (drivers in dracut terminology, which you don't require since

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 20:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r1:2 sys-kernel/dracut-033:0 sys-apps/systemd-204:0 sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.100-r2:0 great, thanks I am able to boot a kernel 3.13.4 with its initramfs which was built back then with dracut-034-r1. No mdadm-raids assembled

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Let me try to update this test VM to see if I can hit the same issue as you. OK, I updated everything, and I certainly hit an issue. With sys-kernel/dracut-037, I cannot boot; it gets stuck after loading

Re: [gentoo-user] problems debugging a systemd problem

2015-05-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Also, as Rich said, if you wait it's possible that systemd (and/or dracut) will drop you into a rescue shell anyway. Unfortunately, thanks to very slow hardware in the wild, the timeout has been increased to three minutes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 10:10:22 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > A homegrown initramfs created by a novice is going to be more reliable > > than one created by dracut or genkernel? Seems unlikely. > > The ones created by genkernel or dracut always need a few iterations >

Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-28 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:00:50 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check > > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the lat

Re: [gentoo-user] Why has genkernel initramfs changed behaviour!?

2021-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
is enable LVM, mount the partitions and then > > continue with booting. On my laptop, it also decrypts the partition > > that contains LVM. All very simple and easy. > > I used to do the same, building the initramfs into the kernel, avoiding > the need for a separate file. But no

[gentoo-user] Re: Qustions about installkernel news item

2024-02-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
=grub. I run grub (no dracut) under openrc but "emerge -pv installkernel" shows... [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/installkernel-18::gentoo [12::gentoo] USE="-dracut* -grub -module-rebuild% -systemd% -uki -ukify" 8 KiB Does this mean I can safely ignore it in my cas

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut: mount: special device /dev/disk/by-label/usr does not exist

2014-03-16 Thread Jc García
[2.579644] usb 8-1: usb auto-suspend, wakeup 1 [2.591677] hub 8-0:1.0: hub_suspend [2.591682] usb usb8: bus auto-suspend, wakeup 1 [3.362374] dracut: root has been mounted 29 times without being checked, check forced. [3.363014] dracut: root: 28323/1525920 files (0.4% non-contiguous

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/27/2012 6:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I've been looking for simple method to create a simple initramfs to just mount the /usr partition. I've found http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Basic_initramfs_used_to_check_and_mount_/usr If this is all you need, I recommend you use dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut vs. genkernel

2013-06-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.06.2013 13:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: How do you generate your kernel and initramfs with dracut? Any handy scripts available ... any tricks or hints? Additional fact here: I boot with grub2 ... so I need to have an initramfs generated that is detected by grub2-mkconfig. For now I

Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?

2017-07-28 Thread John Covici
ci <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > >> > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check > >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest > >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dracut, please

2022-10-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:22:42 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On booting the new system I get an error I haven't heard of before: > dracut complaining "sysroot has no proper sysfs layout". I'm sure I've > done something stupid, but where do I start debugging this? Goo

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-11 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hi! I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM and the dracut thing. I noticed that udev was complaining at boot that it could not find some scripts. The usmount dracut module did not work for me because it could not find /usr. So what I did was to include the fstab-sys smodule

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-11 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
2012/3/11 Jorge Martínez López jorg...@gmail.com: Hi! I had some struggle with a separate /usr on top of LVM and the dracut thing. I noticed that udev was complaining at boot that it could not find some scripts. The usmount dracut module did not work for me because it could not find /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:10 AM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > The ones created by genkernel or dracut always need a few iterations before > they work semi-reliably and are not flexible enough. > I have 2 disks in my laptop. Both are encrypted using LUKS and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
n Zimmerman wrote: > >>> Don't you still need genkernel if you want to build an initramfs? > >> > >>No, dracut. > >> > >>> The handbook (amd64) seems to imply you do, and I don't know of an > >> > >>easy > >> > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] help securing system / remote unlock

2017-02-06 Thread Simon Perfer
Thank you Neil. I had not seen that link. I've had quite an uphill battle getting Dracut to work properly with a rather strange networking situation I have on a variety of servers. I believe the "out of the box experience" I had was not leveraging dracut, though I could be wro

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut and UUID's

2019-02-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 17/2/19 10:08 am, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 8:48 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I have cloned a gentoo image for a raspberry pi to another sdcard. >> It fails to boot because the storage uuid's have changed and dracut has >> the previous uui

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut and UUID's

2019-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 8:48 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > I have cloned a gentoo image for a raspberry pi to another sdcard. > It fails to boot because the storage uuid's have changed and dracut has > the previous uuid's stored internally. Is there a way around this > w

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with dracut

2021-02-13 Thread John Covici
obe.d/zfs.conf /etc/systemd/system/initrd-switch-root.service" dracut: WARNING: +=" ": should have surrounding white spaces! dracut: WARNING: This will lead to unwanted side effects! Please fix the configuration file. /etc/dracut.conf: line 54: /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf /etc/systemd/

[gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-09 Thread Dale
Howdy, Well, this is what I am thinking about jumping into. Ya'll ready for this? I'm thinking about redoing my partition layout. I'm wanting to keep / (root) on a normal ext4 file system. I want to put /usr, /var, /home, and such on LVM. I been using that dracut thingy to build the init

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules. I don't know if it's true or not. Oh really? I don't use modules and I am the one having issues

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-14 Thread Jc García
will try dracut, I hope it works with dracut. This is my kernel command line and RAID/LVM related stuff from GRUB2: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet nosplash GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES=lvm mdraid1x And this is my dracut.conf (minus comments): add_dracutmodules+=crypt

Re: [gentoo-user] problems debugging a systemd problem

2015-05-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, it does work (see attached screenshot). I set my root= kernel command line parameter wrong on purpose, and systemd (inside dracut) dropped me inside a rescue shell. Interesting. Perhaps it just enables

Re: [gentoo-user] Dracut and how to specify names

2020-01-03 Thread Dale
rsion, just to see if it works.  The >> first example I had saved didn't work but the second did.  First was >> likely from a much older version of dracut.  Do you know what changed >> between dracut-046-r1 and dracut-048-r1?  I ran into this once before >> when a major version

Re: [gentoo-user] Question kernel upgrades for dracut users

2012-01-09 Thread Dale
with grub2 and I am using it since about 2 years, I think (at least no non-handmade-trouble ;) ). So I think it's easy. If you have a line for the init thingy in your grub.cfg it should use that or throw an error. If you use dracut according to a fedora-page you can add rdshell rdinitdebug to your

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

2012-03-09 Thread Dale
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I keep my /usr partition in /, but seeing the modules from dracut, the magic happens at: /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/98usrmount/mount-usr.sh Basically, it seems

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel assistance building initramfs

2012-04-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: To the OP.  I would use dracut.  I ran into trouble but I found out later that a earlier attempt at a init thingy was causing the dracut

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-15 Thread Joost Roeleveld
the initramfs. And if you choose to use dracut, the process is automatic (you always call dracut with the same options, unless you suddenly add LVM or something similar). Canek, as you've been using dracut already extensively, is it possible to set default options/modules/whatever to get

Re: [gentoo-user] list of kernel modules

2012-04-06 Thread Todd Goodman
an equery files kmod and carefully study what you're getting with that package, or else push a bug request up to that package maintainer for providing a modprobe that's not 100% compatible. Good luck, Mark udev-182-r2 and dracut depend on kmod. So if the OP hasn't masked them then he

Re: How hard is it to move separate /usr to / partition? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: And really, maybe you could try an initramfs? It will be much more easy than any juggle of filesystems. I always compile my kernels manually, by choice - so, no desire to use genkernel or dracut. How would I

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
messages? Just looked it up, nothing odd. To me it seems that the assembling just doesn't happen at all. Maybe really take the step with the dracut module or a local separate systemd unit file to do that With genkernel, I have a lvm and mdadm boot parameter. With dracut, that might also

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Jc García
in the order that they are done, I thought the confirm_spawn would do this for me -- at least for my initial debugging. I have had this trouble too, and a very similar setup than you, and after a few workarounds I got to boot with a genkernel and a dracut generated initramfs, so it can be done both

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I was a little mystified about why dracut-036 worked on my system and 037 didn't. Before I tried any workaround, I wanted to know what changed from the previous version to the current one. So I generated

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

2014-05-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
. ACK, genkernel initramfs doesn't btrfs scan and TSHTF. genkernel-next works though. I use dracut for generating the initramfs. But if you have it working now without any initramfs then obviously that is full of win (the LA kind, not the Redmond variety)! I wonder if there are any real

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-15 Thread Dale
Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 24.04.2015 13:56, J. Roeleveld wrote: dracut has to assemble /dev/md3 at first (this is the single PV in the VG VG01) and /dev/VG01/genroot then is the filesystem with the new gentoo-rootfs I only added stuff like rd.md=1 etc ... I think I got the assembling wrong. And maybe even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 15, 2016 09:48:14 AM Jeroen Mathon wrote: > I have used genkernel for my initramfs. > > The dracut one seems to hang on a kernel panic(Implying that it did not > load the correct modules for luks and lvm). In my experience, normal for both... > Besides t

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

2019-01-29 Thread Rich Freeman
nd prefer that users use an initramfs for this sort of thing. > > It is exactly the sort of problem an initramfs was created to fix. > > I see no reason to use an initramfs (swingroot) if the kernel can do > what is needed by itself. Personally I use dracut on boxes with a single ext4 part

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:13:56 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> If you do copy yours manually to /boot, what command do you use for > >> dracut?  Maybe I'm doing it a hard way or something and you have a > >> easier method.  > > cd /usr/src/linux > > make all modules_

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:57:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> When you install your kernel, do you use make install or do you copy the >> kernel to /boot manually?  I do mine manually but also copy it manually >> as well.  That makes it hard for me to reca

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

2022-01-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:44:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> Compiling the kernel and modules? Replace 1 with >>> >>> make all modules_install install >>> >>> There's also the matter of the initramfs, one of the main reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

2022-01-01 Thread Dale
matter of the initramfs, one of the main reasons >>>> people use genkernel, although I prefer dracut for this. >>>> >>>> >>> until you trip over genkernel's "features" ... like AUTOMOUNT_BOOT, >>> which doesn't work, by design. Or

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

2022-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
, although I prefer dracut for this. until you trip over genkernel's "features" ... like AUTOMOUNT_BOOT, which doesn't work, by design. Or NO_INSTALL, which does rather more than just not installing ... I'm investigating source_mage, and ought to investigate dracut. Once you have a work

Re: [gentoo-user] Question kernel upgrades for dracut users

2012-01-09 Thread Dale
dunno. I'll google some more tho. I followed a couple howtos to get mine to work. I'm not sure but I know one was on a Redhat or Fedora website. I think the others came from a dracut site. I just wanted to clear up some mud before I dived off into something. I'll check you link too. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!

2012-03-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-03-17 12:11 AM, Bruce Hill, Jr. da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: An initramfs which does this is created by =sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.25.1 or =sys-kernel/dracut-017-r1. If you do not want to use these tools, be sure any initramfs you create pre-mounts /usr. Ok, I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules.  I don't know if it's true or not. Oh really?  I don't use modules and I am the one having issues with not being able to su to root

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?

2012-03-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Incidentally, dracut says it won't work on a kernel without modules.  I don't know if it's true or not. Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs with lvm

2012-04-19 Thread 林守磊
yes. i already have lvm2 installed. The problom is dracut depend device mapper 在 2012-4-19 上午10:20,Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com写道: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:56 PM, 林守磊 linxiu...@gmail.com wrote: I get problom with my initramfs.: [ snip ] 3. I try to emerge dracut-018 to create my

Re: [gentoo-user] initramfs with lvm

2012-04-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
2012/4/19 林守磊 linxiu...@gmail.com: yes. i already have lvm2 installed. The problom is dracut depend device mapper Which version of LVM2? Do you have device-mapper on USE in /etc/make.conf? Regards. 在 2012-4-19 上午10:20,Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com写道: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:56

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/tmp - /var/tmp a problem with new udev?

2012-08-20 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, Aug 20 2012, Doug Hunley wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I realize that new udev without dracut wants /usr part of root filesystem. The last few gentoo installations I have done all had /usr/tmp symlinked to /var/tmp and I don't believe

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/tmp - /var/tmp a problem with new udev?

2012-08-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 20.08.2012 21:01, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On Mon, Aug 20 2012, Doug Hunley wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I realize that new udev without dracut wants /usr part of root filesystem. The last few gentoo installations I have done all had

Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-03 Thread Florian Philipp
://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dracut No comment on dracut as I have no experience with it. However, as I see it, you need no key file if you just use a pass phrase. In my opinion, a key file is only necessary for two improvements: 1. Two-factor authentication (read: encrypted key file) 2. Avoiding re

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 /usr/src

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
just doesn't happen at all. Maybe really take the step with the dracut module or a local separate systemd unit file to do that With genkernel, I have a lvm and mdadm boot parameter. With dracut, that might also be necessary. Doesn't work yet. If dracut sorts that, mdadm.service might

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-13 Thread covici
Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 13.05.2014 14:29, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: * What is the status now with dracut? The mentioned options ... I don't have them in my config (although my setup is now completely different from yours ... anyway). I emerged it and want

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
to my last participation. ] Stefan, have you tried to run dracut --print-cmdline and add that to your kernel command line? By the last thread related to systemd+dracut, that solved my problems when using dracut 037. Could you try to see if it solves your issues? Also, I just noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I last participated in the thread, so I'm just replying to my last participation. ] Stefan, have you tried to run dracut --print-cmdline and add that to your kernel command line? By the last thread related to systemd+dracut, that solved my problems when using dracut 037. Could you try to see

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