Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill ><[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label >to >>> read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in >>> the initramfs which this one doesn't have. >>> >>> The problem I have with that idea is that all I put in the RAID6 >which >>> does have an initramfs is e2fsck, not e2label or anything else. >>> However maybe e2fsck has that capability and that's why it's >working? >>> >>> Good catch! >>> >>> Thanks, and best wishes for the new year and a safe New Year's eve >to all. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mark >> >> I've deleted your OP (sorry), but also, the kernel autodetects RAID >using >> metadata 0.90 superblocks, but not 1.2 superblock (seems your output >had some >> of each?). >> -- > >Hi Bruce, > Yes, in the first and older Gentoo build I'm letting the kernel >autodetect RAID1 to find /. That's the install that does NOT work >mounting by label. > > In the second install I use an initramfs, / is on a RAID6 and is >not autodetected. Rather I assemble the RAID6 within the initramfs >using mdadm --assemble ####. The initramfs has both e2fsck & mdadm so >it's able to assemble the RAID. It's also able to mount by label >without any problems. > > Joost is suggesting that there might have been a thread earlier >this year that said you must use an initramfs to mount by label, but I >cannot find any grub documentation that supports that, and so far have >not discovered the thread he's remembering. > >HTH, and thanks! >Mark
Found it. Topic: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic Was around 20th of July. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
