Michael Mol wrote: > So, my habit is to have /usr sit on top of LVM on top of mdraid. I > really don't want to get into the business of manually managing my own > initramfs, and udev >= 181 will eventually hit stable. I want my > systems ready before that. > > Now, having looked at the pertinent documentation, it looks like the > command I need to run is: > > genkernel --lvm --mdadm --disklabel initramfs > > and then add the initramfs to my grub setup. > > The trouble is, genkernel dies on me. I tried for some feedback in > #gentoo-chat, and DrEeevil gave me two clues: > > 13:34 <+DrEeevil> that shouldn't even be possible > 13:36 <+DrEeevil> mikemol: looks like static linking didn't on your system > > I don't know where to take things from here. I'm hesitant to file a > bug on b.g.o, because the tail end of genkernel.log specifically says > not to file build errors as bug reports. > > So...any ideas? This is an amd64 mostly-stable system, and dracut is > still masked on amd64, which is why I'm trying to get genkernel > working. > > I've attached genkernel.log >
If I read the -dev mailing list correctly, they plan to still support /usr without a init thingy. After all the mess I went through, we may not need the init thingy after all. Go figure. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

