Thomas, Alec, thanks for the replies. i'll try the testing packages on a different machine. will be trying out the mkinitrd approach (since i think this is actually done by the install script).
will get back to the list for reports, success or otherwise. On 3/14/06, Alec Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:03:00AM -0800, Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > tried giving arch a swing and it works great. > > > > here are some kinks (probably on my end) that i'd like to > > confirm on how to do it properly. > > > > i have set up a box with an LVM setup. all constant sized > > filesystem are using XFS and all the logical volumes are using > > ReiserFS. so far, all logical volumes are non essential. > > > > during bootup, the system gives me a root shell to do maintenance > > since it can't mount the logical volumes. what i did is to > > add a modprobe in rc.sysinit to add dm_mod. this solved the problem. > > i wasn't paying attention during installation and just accepted > > default values for config. > > > > the question would be: > > how would i solve this cleanly without messing around > > with the bootscripts? i think this can be done with a proper > > initrd. i just want to make sure i'm doing this right. > > I believe the "approved" method is to make sure REMOVE_DM is not set to > "1" in /etc/mkinitrd.conf: > > REMOVE_DM= > > Then run: > > mkinitrd full > mkinitrd auto > > Works for me at least. > > -- > Evolution: Taking care of those too stupid to take care of themselves. > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > -- salud, eyan http://www.eyan.org _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
