Michael Scherer wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:57 -0500 > Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 wouldn't bet on that. > > But there is a detailed gentoo howto to create an iniramfs > that does just that: load /usr. > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Early_Userspace_Mounting > It works. You only need tell your bootloader that now you > have an initramfs. > There's also a more general introduction > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs > for a lot of other options > > michael > >
I'm not betting on it but that is what the Gentoo council voted on and it said that /usr on a separate partition was going to be supported. You must have missed the HUGE thread where I was trying to get a init thingy to work huh? 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"
