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.
>
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eyan

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